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Originally Posted by Tannaton
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.
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I know, I asked the question because of the 'direness quotient' of the warning
(as if Volvo would be receptive to a claim for a rebuild if a Volvo-boxed aux belt failed and interfered with the timing belt, any more than Dayco and the like!)
Tooling costs from OEM suppliers mean modest changes only at most for their 'own label' parts. We generally, if we're active on the Forum, know the exceptions/mantras:
'Thou shalt not change an OEM water pump unless it feeleth rough, and if so, thou shalt always fit oEM' springs to mind
