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Originally Posted by Bonefishblues
That wasn't my question. Is the Volvo OEM aux belt also sold under a manufacturer's own brand?
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Maybe... maybe not... you will never know.
It’s a frequently debated topic on here driven by the price of some genuine parts but when Volvo spend millions on R&D and then get a company to make parts to their spec they will nearly always protect their intellectual property by not allowing the company to sell the exact same parts themselves. This is true for brake discs, pads, wiper blades, batteries, bulbs, belts, bearings, filters, etc. Even spark plugs.
Contitech, which is part of Continental AG, do make a lot of belts for manufacturers, and also sell to retail under their own brand.
The common exceptions are parts for the Ford engines, belts sold by Volvo are often Gates.