I was searching the net for Continental diesel timing belts and came upon a
continental factory site which had listings for VW manufacturers installed
belts and VW aftermarket belts listed separately. It was a little confusing
, however based on their product descriptions, it appears that the
aftermarket Contitech Continental Syncrobelt is different then the
continental timing belt installed at the VW factory, and apparently is
better made also. Are there two belts or am I mistaken. Are they just
slightly different, like factory car tires and aftermarket tires, where the
aftermarket is better.They claim they are trying to make belts that last the
engine life, and have some Syncro belt applications already over 200,000
miles.

My 2003 owners manual has a timing belt service interval of 105,000
miles. The 2002 was 80,000 miles.

"verndog" <fckoff (AT) nospamassholeCo (DOT) net> wrote:


Jim B.