Bando, Gates or Toyota OE sepentine belt?

[JeffKeryk]

I have the original serpentine belt on our beloved 2001 Tundra 4.7. 23 years young with 215K on the clock.
The Bando belts are a good price and I have had luck with them.
Which belt: Bando, Gates or Toyota OE?

My guess is they are all fine. Thanks in advance.

 

[wag123]

I have the original serpentine belt on our beloved 2001 Tundra 4.7. 23 years young with 215K on the clock.
The Bando belts are a good price and I have had luck with them.
Which belt: Bando, Gates or Toyota OE?

My guess is they are all fine. Thanks in advance.

You got 23 years and 215k miles on the original Toyota OEM belt. To me, the answer is obvious.

 

[Andyd95]

Dealer OE is preferred if not Bando or Mitsuboshi would be fine.

Also I hope the timing belt isn’t original

 

[John105]

Got Bando in the Lexus and Bando in the GM. Been 4 years on the Lexus and 5 on the GM. There is little justification in paying OE pricing (marginal benefit is < marginal cost).

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

Is Brando like a Sorny or Magnetbox?

*I mean I would post the famous picture from our favorite animated TV show but I have been warned in the past that's some type of copyright violation

 

[John105]

Is Brando like a Sorny or Magnetbox?

*I mean I would post the famous picture from our favorite animated TV show but I have been warned in the past that's some type of copyright violation

He coulda been a contender. This forum should have looked out for him.

 

[Leo99]

He coulda been a contender. This forum should have looked out for him.

His brother didn't look out for him.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Dealer OE is preferred if not Bando or Mitsuboshi would be fine.

Also I hope the timing belt isn’t original

Timing belt was done around 135K.
I will check Toyota price, just for fun.

 

[JeffKeryk]

You got 23 years and 215k miles on the original Toyota OEM belt. To me, the answer is obvious.

You are making perfect sense. I hate it when that happens! FYI I should be pushing up daises in 23 years, so there's that.
My old Tundra is perfect, by the way.

 

[redbone3]

Always had great service from Bando.

 

[drtyler]

Toyota OE.

It will likely be Bando, but its also constructed differently. Most likely less stretch over time.

 

[02SE]

Bando is, or has been an OEM manufacturer of Toyota accessory drive belts. Mitsuboshi makes the OEM Toyota timing belts.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Bando makes good belts at a great price. Yeah Toyota OE is good too, but there is no need to spend the extra money on them

 

[andrew_j]

Don’t bother with it unless you are changing the likely overdue timing belt that comes off anyway.

 

[KGMtech]

If OEM from dealer is within 50% of cost of the next best choice, the piece of mind over the next 100k miles is worth it.

 

[Urshurak776]

I like Continental…..

 

[doitmyself]

Bando is, or has been an OEM manufacturer of Toyota accessory drive belts. Mitsuboshi makes the OEM Toyota timing belts.

Some here claim that from the same manufacturer OEM is sometimes different than aftermarket. I.E., on my Patriot the OEM Akebono brake pads are completely different than the Akebono aftermarket. If my plans are for long care ownership, I have joined the camp of OEM on many (not all) car parts.

 

[burbguy82]

I have the original serpentine belt on our beloved 2001 Tundra 4.7. 23 years young with 215K on the clock.
The Bando belts are a good price and I have had luck with them.
Which belt: Bando, Gates or Toyota OE?

My guess is they are all fine. Thanks in advance.

dont they burn you at the stake in california for such an old gas guzzling polluter?

wow 215 and 23 years old belt, wow

 

[SC Maintenance]

I only use Bando anymore. Hard to beat the price, never had an issue.

The OEM is likely a Bando. Normally a manufacturer would not make two variants of the same belt - not worth the cost of two sku's. In the case of a belt however it is possible. Still also possible - both the new Bando and the OEM Bando are both inferior to the original OEM, now that the truck is out of production.

Gates is OK too.

You couldn't pay me to put anything from Continental on my car anymore.

 

[John105]

Some here claim that from the same manufacturer OEM is sometimes different than aftermarket. I.E., on my Patriot the OEM Akebono brake pads are completely different than the Akebono aftermarket. If my plans are for long care ownership, I have joined the camp of OEM on many (not all) car parts.

With German cars, just as with auto glass, there are three grades. OE, OEM, and aftermarket.

Folks who are in the Japanese car world often use the term OEM, to mean OE. Which doesn’t help matters. Also, on purpose, it’s not transparent.

A $16 Bando on Amazon, which I have in 2 vehicles, is not OEM. It’s aftermarket. And good enough, there was no need to spend $60-$80 on OE (there are Mitsoboshi and Bando OE p/n’s).

With BMW and GM from experience. The difference between OE and OEM is packaging and stickers. But we know going into it. With Japanese, we do not.

Denso is OEM to GM. The factory GM OE alternator on my wife’s car is Denso, made in USA. Her car was mfg in Michigan.

Denso, AC DELCO, Valeo, these cos are OE, OEM, and aftermarket, all 3.

A $100 Denso radiator is not the same as a $432 Denso from a dealer. Nobody claims that it is. First is aftermarket, latter OE. In this case you do want OE. With the belt, you do not.