According to my lists there's only two belts, ERR3287 to fit when alternator pulley is 62mm diameter up to chassis number 16L25164, and ERR5911 when alternator pulley is only 49mm diameter from chassis number 16L25165.
I'd already changed the waterpump twice - the first time for a Britpart item that lasted 1500 miles before the pulley ended up with about an inch of play, a genuine part solved that one. The noise turned out to be the bearing in the tensioner.
I've been told the squeaky serpentine belt is a typical 300TDi problem, which also manifests itself in Defenders and Range Rovers. When I bought my Disco 1, it had about 20 K miles and already a nasty whine. The ANWB (Dutch RAC) tech guy told me it was the tensioner - it was not. Land Rover told me it was rust - it was not. Someone on some forum said the Gates belts squeaked a lot less - and he was right. I replaced my old OEM belt with the Gates 78411 "special service" (or
78413, don't peg me down on that one) and the squeaking stopped. For a while at least. It still squeaked, but it squeaked a lot, lot less.
Moreover, I've found the occasional squirt of silicone oil to be quite effective. The Gates belt, silicone oil and all, kept on going strong for about 50 k miles. When I got the Disco MOT'd - and the alternator checked (this forum:
formatting link
) - last month, theLand Rover specialist I brought it to, replaced the old Gates with a"squeaky" new genuine OEM Land Rover belt, and now I'm back toincessant squeaking again. Grmbl. Can't wait to get me a Gates one.
My guess is serpent> Ive just replaced the belt on the 90 with a new one, as the old one was
The PQS numbered belts according to Marc are made by Gates and AFAICR the earlier OE numbered belts were made by Uniroyal BICBW. Perhaps they changed supplier, hence the superceded numbers because of a design fault with the belts? IME the noise is usually caused by worn or misaligned tensioner.
MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here.
All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.