Gates Fan Belt part number

AS above does anyone have a part nbr for these??

what are the cam belts like......are they any good, or should I stick to Toyota timing belt??

Mikey

Why not just stick with the Toyota one, I got mine from Dusty @ MVP for about 18£. It works.

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24 hour special order from Halfords

Mikey, fit either a stock cam belt or Power Enterprise kevlar belt see HERE

Why not just stick with the Toyota one, I got mine from Dusty @ MVP for about 18£. It works.

Wow thats a good price, is that inc shipping etc??? I just read a post with dude contributed too and he said the Gates belts are good?

I will get in touch with the dust meister

cheers guys

The guys at Phoenix told me to stay with a stock toyota one as they have some sort of felt on the face that prevents sqealing (sp?)

They are silly money, about £70, bloody long belts though.

Paul

Wow thats a good price, is that inc shipping etc??? I just read a post with dude contributed too and he said the Gates belts are good?

 

I will get in touch with the dust meister

 

cheers guys

Good exhange rate at the time and free delivery thanks to the gf

Just been told by 2 separate places that the Gates number is incorrect - apparently it's not a 21mm x 1955mm belt, but a 21mm x 1932 mm one. (Can't remember the number but will post it when I get it)

I returned a 1932mm one this morning after reading that it was wrong on here. When I went to order from somewhere else they told me exactly the same thing.

I want to get this cracked belt changed this weekend as I don't want to go touring Germany next week with it in it's current state.

I don't suppose someone's got a new or used fan belt they could measure please?

Cheers,

Ken

Anyone?

Update. I asked the supplier to get both belts in and I'd return the incorrect one.

The 1955mm belt was indeed the right one, and "the book" was wrong - twice!

So chalk one up to this site. Thanks guys.

So the part number I posted above was correct? Or not?

I'll look in the Gates book in the morn' if no-one knows before then ?

plus i'm fairly sure Gates are Main-Agent on Vauxhalls (not that THATs

a particularly brilliant recommendation !! - we do a LOT of Ecotech

belt failures - 'specially the 2.5/3.0 )

We use Gates/AE/FAI/Dayco and have NO problems with any of them.

Also if you INSIST on a Toyota belt, nearly ALL "parts" such as filters/belts

etc (particulary Discs and Pads !! - FIRST-HAND experience !!) are made and

supplied to Toyota by Blueprint. (I'll get THAT number in morn too).

[bought in front pads and discs for boss's mates UK TT and they were Blueprint,

then little later bought in MINE to uprate my TT... form Toyota...in Toyota

boxes... with Toyota numbers... THEY WERE EXACTLY THE SAME PADS AND

DISCS !!! - got photos somewhere of HIS and MINE ]

FatS.

Most of Toyota's parts are made by Denso in Japan, are you sure they were Blueprint parts?

ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL ! !

I suppose DENSO could make them for BOTH (Toyota and Blueprint) ?

If i hadn't got trade on them from Toyotas i'd have sent 'em back and

re-ordered the Blueprint ones instead.... THAT IDENTICAL.

{must dig out the pics}

So the part number I posted above was correct? Or not?

I would stick with Toyota one

Just phoned my local factors (unipart) and they say the belt is 1950mm not 1955mm. Can anyone clarify this?

Anyone?

s'alright mate.... the various manufacturers list/supply slightly different

length belts from both the 'original' AND from each OTHER ! ! !

We use Ancillary belts from Unipart, Gates, Dayco, FAI, etc etc

and although all within a few millimetres of each other and SOME are

EXACTLY the same, they generally 'seem to disagree', almost like one is saying

THEY think it ought to be slightly longer/shorter.

found that as long as the belt is listed for the appropriate vehicle they still

fit OK.

It MAY be that they 'measure' the lengths in a slightly different way (?!).

The fact that they are tensioned AND the exact length is not as critical as

a Timing-Belt (for instance) may mean it doesn't matter (?).

THAT SAID, i haven't ACTUALLY bought/measured (or USED) the Gates one

myself (or on a job) so that bit about being 1930mm i can't comment on

there's certainly no reason NOT to but Toyota other than the fact that it

may be grossly overpriced...if it's NOT, then why not ??

As for the TIMING-BELT..... even I might tend to stick to

Toyota just because the possibilty of a failure is...errr... a tad more

worrying than just getting stuck out in the cold waiting for the AA.

(i REPEAT, we have NEVER had a timing-belt 'job' come back to us under

warranty and it's quite rare that we use 'original' direct from the agent !!

but for MY car................... )

I'll look-up the numbers/lengths for mkIV belt tomorrow in all the makes i can

and post 'em up here for interest ????

[yeah, i know, i said that before...... ]

FatS

Forgot about numbers 'till ~5 minutes before Knocking-Off time ! !

Didn't have time for Unipart etc, just got these ones so far.......

i got uni part one somewhere as it belt i got on my car...ohh but no length sorry

Thanks Steve, I got one from WD Factors but going on the various info on here I asked for one that was 1955 in length so part number was 6PK1955!

Hope it aint to big as going on the part number you posted should be more like 1930 something in length????

Could be either way mate ?!

Those are straight out of the 3 catalogues, BUT, they MAY have copied

wrong info from somewhere ??

Not VERY likely but possible ???

I would think they'd have had some negative feedback by now ?!?

and changed their listings ??

THINK i need one shortly (mine's looking rather sad...cracking/old looking)

so i will PERSONALLY see what the problems are FIRST-HAND...

BOOGER ! !

Well mines is getting fitted on Saturday so I'll let you know, thanks again.

Got an attack of the jitters and went back and got the Gates 6PK1938 instead!

Works a treat :-), cost 17 quid.