2004 Toyota Avalon 197K. Big Fan! Doing second timing belt at 200k along w/ water pump of course, but this time doing tensioner and pulley along w/ seals. Always OEM Toyota for assurance but I did cheap out with a kit from Continental for the tensioner and pulley that was on sale at Rock Auto. The parts may come from China... Question: Everything I'm doing is preventative maintenance as my car is running perfectly; will I regret putting these aftermarket parts in-will they last 200k like original?
They probably won’t last you another 200,000 - that’s just way more then what timing belts usually last…
With that being said, Continental/ContiTech makes reasonably high quality rubber parts, I’ve been using their components on my cars for quite a while and they seem to work pretty well 🙂
just make sure that the parts you got are an exact match for your car before installing it, sometimes it can get pretty complicated to make sure a non oem part is an exact fit…
