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02-06-2018, 02:51 PM
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Gates are generally very good belts, and are the only V belts I'll buy given a choice for many years now. I'm sure the serpentine ones are fine.
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02-07-2018, 07:36 AM
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they had a plant in north carolina,they closed bet their outsourced
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02-07-2018, 03:43 PM
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Conti V belts became iffy about ten years ago, quit using them.
I have one perticular very demanding application that will separate the men-belts from the boy-belts pretty quickly and it was quite notable. They used to be very good. Haven't had any trouble from their timing belts yet. FWIW I have several Gates V belts near at hand, they are all stamped Made In USA on the belt itself, that may not apply to serpentine belts, it's a big world out there. Not that country of origin seems to matter too much these days, I've seen some mighty crappy made in USA belts from the McParts stores.
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02-07-2018, 06:22 PM
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Gates is a big, high quality name in belts, hoses selling products far beyond the auto parts line.
Generally, Gates is # 1 in the US , Dayco a very close / equal # 2 mostly because they don't have the product depth of Gates. I'm pretty sure Dayco makes a low cost line so be sure you are getting high end Dayco when buying parts. The Goodyear name is just a licensed to a belt maker. I " think " Continental recently bought the " Goodyear " belt line but not the naming rights. As for auto parts chain store branded belts, they are likely Dayco unless really low line but the NAPA stuff might be Gates.
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02-12-2018, 11:56 PM
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Gates and Dayco belts are both quite good. Quality of the Conti belts dropped off a while back as wolf says, probably due to their outsourcing. I've had two Conti serpentine belts shred for no apparent reason in recent years (on two different cars).
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02-13-2018, 09:40 AM
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I wonder of Conti's old supplier had issues / closed and was the cause of lower quality and the reason they bought the Goodyear belt line.
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