Cambelt Advice

[billybluesky 1]

Has any one advice on which cambelt to choose from, whether to go to pug for a oem replacement or are there other/better replacements for my standard 1.6gti ? it`s my daily driver with the occasional thrash round the back roads

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

I would just go for a good quality belt from a motor factor, Gates, Dayco, Goodyear etc.

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Gates every time for me.

[Daviewonder 533 3 Cars]

I've always used Gates kits on all my cars, top quality.

[billybluesky 1]

Thanks guy`s as always an invaluable source of info

[jonny6 8]

gates are good , dayco are good , they make the genuine belts for VW

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

dayco are good , they make the genuine belts for VW

They used to make them for Peugeot as well, I assume they still do.

 

I tend to use dayco which can be found cheap on ebay but last one I bought was a motaquip belt.

 

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[billybluesky 1]

I just had a quote for a unipart cam belt from our local partco/unipart dealer £14 sounds cheap but is it likely to be good! does anyone know who supplies unipart? everything else i`ve had from them has been good quality, oddly enough the cambelt kit was £60 though and a waterpump was £35 (two versions)

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

I've never had any issue with Unipart bits, in actual fact generally they are decent quality.