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Old 10-10-2010, 11:11 PM
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Any belt that I have installed in the past 3 years, I've not got the call that the belt tension warning is coming on due to the belt. Granted, I make it a habit of installing only the Gates on the interference engines and on the early 16v cars, it's pretty much up to what they want. Now that the Gates is $10.00 cheaper than the Conti, I rarely install a Conti.

I have had a Gates come back in for a warning, and that was due to the tensioner warning system being stupid on my part. The wires were not connected as solid as I thought they were. Sucked getting that tested out but that was my own issue, not with the belt.

*****ensure that the warning system is clean, the wires are in good shape, and the ground points are good.

Now, I've got a Conti belt on my car, have had for 4 years, also got a lot of Conti belt S4's running out there that I replaced 3-4 years ago and have had no issues with them. The Conti belt was the cheaper option 4 years ago, and I doubt that the quality has gone to **** since then, but since I deal with Roger daily, and know he deals with Gates directly, I know those are the ways to go now.

I have run the **** out of my Conti belt with a cheap reman water pump on my S4 for 4.5 years now, and I mean I have run the **** out of it. It goes good, but in 6 months, I will be going new Laso pump, Gates Belt and will still have the confidence I had before.

This does not mean I know anything about the Gates Racing belt, I've only felt those in my hands.
Old 10-10-2010, 11:25 PM
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Thanks for that.

I'll run the conti belts for a while longer.
Old 10-10-2010, 11:34 PM
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Landseer, don't worry about it. There is a huge deal with people going OMFGMY****GOINGTOBLOWUP, make sure all of your stuff is in good shape, cam gears, oil gear, tensioner bolt............the usual and there won't be an issue.

I used the rebult cheap water pump because there wasn't a better option out there 4 years ago....for me........BUT, I have pulled no less than 6 of those in the past 1.5 years due to failure. I got lucky. And I use one as a demo to customers as to why to not use them. Not worth the chance.

I know you wanted to know more about the belts, but I figured there would be more that searched and wanted pump info. I've not had an issue with the Conti belts, I just perfer to go with what some of the others have said............Besides, Roger has the price of Gates down way low
Old 10-11-2010, 01:59 AM
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I don't care if it's Conti, Gates or your mother's belt, if it loses tension anytime enough to trip the warning and is found to be loose, it's history. It's a bad sign. These belts really are not supposed to stretch.
Old 10-11-2010, 02:51 AM
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Bill, thanks for the data points on your belt experience, as they are particularly revealing plus consistent with my 32 V experiences.

Truth is that that I want to switch-out the belts (and several rebuilt pumps).
Its not possible for me at the moment to do so. Maybe in Feb/Mar.
When it is, I will go with Gates and new Lasso.



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