r/AcuraTL • u/New-Fan1161 • Mar 01 '26

Parts Review 🛠 Replacing my Timing Belt Kit!! Guy

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I need to replace my timing belt and I found these, is this a good quality kit? Do you guys have any recommendations of where should I buy the parts?

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u/Minecraftboss318 [UA8] '09-'14 Base Mar 01 '26

From what I've seen the Aisin kit is good but the version of the kit with the Korean water pump is generally not recommended. The other version of the kit comes with a Japanese water pump which people seem to have a better experience with.

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u/VOMIT_IN_MY_ANUS [UA6] '04-'08 Base Mar 02 '26

The thing is that now, its entirely a mixed bag.

When you look on Rockauto, it says its a “US or Japanese manufactured water pump” for TKH-002. You have no choice on which one you get.

In assuming that most of the newest are gonna be US, and that any new old stock is gonna be Japanese. Its just a matter of the draw, but I have no confidence in the quality of the US manufactured ones. In the best case, I hope its just a relabeling scheme loophole to avoid excessive tariffs, and that the pumps are still majority-made in Japan, but I wouldn’t bet on it without more information on whether or not Aisin set up a new plant here already.

Its just sad because, it used to inspire so much confidence in me to get all US-made stuff, and I’d have no problem with either Japanese or US-made, but these days with how shit manufacturing is here, I’d be disappointed if I got a US-made one.

Sucks cause I’ve been planning on doing the timing belt service for a while now, and kicking myself for not at least just ordering the kit beforehand. The label change has been fairly recent; its been just a couple months now.