thats great pricing. How much is labor for the install? Im at 56k just started saving money for the 60K. 250 is not very much to cough up.

 

Im at 50k and mine is 06, which 5yrs old. Im planning to do at 55k, mine is daily.
Your best bet is take cover off and inspect belt.

 

Interesting. Isnt just oem water pump cost around 200 bucks or so?

 

My local evo shop told me it would be around 850 +/- with parts and water pump replace.

 

I know, I'm not working on an EVO... but I change my 99 GSX's belt about every 60k. If I go a couple thousand over I don't sweat it. The first time I used an OEM timing belt, bought a timing belt kit from Parts Dinosaur for the pullies and balance shaft belt. I didn't change the tensioner. Fast forward 60k... the car now has 240k on it (bought the car with 178k). I did a balance shaft elimination. I tried to loosen the balance shaft sprocket bolt with the old belt on to hold it in place and the belt snapped. I had bought a Gates belt kit, put the new balance shaft belt on and it was strong enough and didn't break while I cracked the bolt loose. This showed me the importance to keep up on maintenace and not let it go. Belts wear out... Now I'm at 244+k, drive it 120 miles a day, new OEM Tensioner with the Gates belt kit.

 

if you go with gates, the water pump is roughly $80. I am doing the work myself so the thread will have a bunch of photos.

 

I was planning to do the same thing, as I also have a 2006 IX SE that has around 50,500 miles. It's daily driven but my commute is generally short (plus on longer road trips, we usually end up taking my girlfriend's Corolla), but like you, despite lower-than-average mileage, the belt is already five or six years old. I was planning on doing mine around the next oil change or two but definitely before I hit 60,000, as I think the serpentine belt should get changed soon as well.

 

Hello, here's an update and I just wanted to share this information and get more poll information if possible. My wife's 1996 Honda Civic - all belts, tensioner and water replaced after 103K miles and after 16 yrs..lol. Our 2000 Toyota Sienna Minivan - timing and serpentine belts replaced after 113K and 13 yrs. My evo is now at 61K and 6yrs. I think as long as I kept it stock, i can safely reach 75k or a yr from now. However, i think if I change an engine variable to increase power then I basically alter the individual parts build design hence it may fail or other parts working with it may fail earlier...its like when you increase power, now you just to upgrade the other parts to compensate for the increase power...just my thoughts....... I am now saving money for the timing belt replacement and other parts for the upgrade.....My poke-EVO (pokemon) will not evolve yet unlike the others..ha ha ha...Cheers!

 

Why not just change them and play it safe? I'm only at 53k miles, but the car itself is almost six years old, and I'm even thinking about just doing the 60k around the time of my next oil change.

 

My car is DD. Bought it at 96k in 05/11. Currently has 132k. First t-belt was replaced at 56k. Therefore I have 76k on this t-belt. I have ALL the parts to do it, but I was waiting until spring of '13 to do it all cause I'm doing lifters and cams and a tune as well. I didn't want to have the miles this high but my beater car took a crap and the Evo was my only car until 3 weeks ago Luckily it's garaged now and waiting for spring and tax money!

 

Sh*t I just had mine changed on my 2005 at 40k. I did it as its 7 going on 8 years old.
I blew belts on two different ducati motors by not replacing in the recommended two year interval.
So I was a little gun shy.
I will say that the shop that did it, did say they have never seen a belt go due to age. And upon visual inspection my belt looked great.

 

You never know though... my brother's serpentine belt snapped on his car (not an Evo) a couple of months ago.

 

I took my OEM IX belt off at 74k or thereabouts. Damn thing still looked brand new. Did the VIIIs have kevlar belts from the factory like the IX does?

 

I'm curious as to why the IX is 90k or whatever and the VIII is 60k. I can see back when they were first released the belt composition may have been different but I'm sure at some point the part supersceded to a "stronger belt" like the IX and the longetivity would have been lengthened? idk, just thinking out oud, lol

 

The IX has a Kevlar-reinforced belt. I saw it on mine and like I said, it looked like it could have gone another 60k when I took it off. The thing was perfect.