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Timing belt kits #

Posted by Steve Sneap on May 19, 2015, 7:47 am

Year of Manufacture *: New timing belt supplier

Hi All

Had a timing belt to do yesterday on a VW Eos tdi .Ordered it from Pages and very suprised to see BGA kit. In view of recent problems sent it back. Seems that it is new product that pages are stocking in a big way. We have had three BGA water pumps fail in the last 18 months.

Steve Sneap

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Posted by Andy Mason <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT2936' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 19, 2015, 8:46 am, in reply to "Timing belt kits"
Andy Mason

Have you ever checked the prices of genuine belt kits and water pumps from TPS?
We only ever fit genuine on most things these days, not only for quality and peace of mind, but prices as well
Andy

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Posted by tony bickers <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT5143' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 19, 2015, 6:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Timing belt kits"
Anthony Bickers

As Andy,

TPS , Ford , Vauxhall, French rubbish

, typically offer 50% discount on Genuine kit, no brainer really, looked at price of doing a 2.0 tdci 2010 Ford Kuga today, Blue Oval price for full kit with water pump, Â£223, trade Â£111, there's a 100 quid profit without lifting a spanner, BGA water pump, ?? never in a million years !

Re: Timing belt kits

Posted by Steve Sneap <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT5333' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 20, 2015, 7:21 am, in reply to "Re: Timing belt kits"
Stephen Sneap

On this vehicle we did in fact use genuine parts from TPS, Timing belt kit was £64.68 and water pump £27.81 BGA prices £43.52 and £24.05.In the past we used SKF ,Gates or Dayco and have never had a problem. However I agree with Tony NEVER... BGA !
Steve Sneap.

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Posted by simon Kefford <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=ukat3159' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 21, 2015, 6:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Timing belt kits"
Simon Kefford

BGA no way - gen - gates - skf ok

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Posted by john moutrey <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=ukat3734' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 2, 2015, 7:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Timing belt kits"

We're in the middle of a claim with pages/bga on a transit timing chain but because it was more than 12 months old its been rejected even though its only done 10000 miles !! And its not the first !!! Pure shite !

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Posted by Steve Sneap <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT5333' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 3, 2015, 4:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Timing belt kits"
Stephen Sneap

Hi John, the reason we will not use BGA is we fitted a bga water pump and dayco timing belt kit to a disel Vectra ( JTD engine) 6months later and 9k the water pump seized ,melted the cam belt and the result was an Â£1100.oo repair bill .It took 8 months but I did get paid ,Half from bga half from pages . As you say its not the first,Stick with it.
Steve Sneap

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