I carried Bando Belts back in the 80s at Sherwood Auto Parts when I
dabbled in some Jap car parts and they were a decent quality belt of
the time.  But a lot of VW customers were turned off by the fact that
Bando came from the Far East and you know how that mind-set would be.
They were OE on Nissan/Datsun, Toyota, Honda, Mazda, etc.  I had them
on a 72 Toyota HiLux Pickup for years, no problems.

Try it.  You'll be our guinea pig Jack :)

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84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> A list member replied offline and suggested that I look at Bando's belts
> to find a 9.5mm v-belt.
>
> Their automotive belt catalog* recommends their part number 2435 for my
> 1.9 engine water pump/alternator belt and according to
> <http://www.amazon.com/Bando-2435-Precision-Engineered-V-Belt/dp/B002EC9K3K>,
> it is "0.38 x 43.5 inch or 9.5mm x 1100mm La"
>
> That seems to fill the bill for a proper 9.5mm belt. Anyone see any
> reason not to use it?
>
> $8.57 + shipping
>
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> <http://www.bandousa.com/html/pdfs/automotiveCatalog.pdf>
>
>
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.