How's this for a timing belt?
I feel like saying in my best Crocodile Dundee voice, "You call that a timing belt? Now this, this is a timing belt!".
The Acura service department was so fucking nice I couldn't believe it. I mean, the MB service is nice but very aloof and professional. When I take the SLK in a guy meets me with a clipboard and he knows my name and is business-like and all. But my car goes behind a glass wall and I can only stand and stare at the clinically clean service bays.
At the Acura dealer it was kind of greasy in spots but I got invited back to see my car on the lift and meet the tech who was doing the work and we yacked for quite a while. He brought the car down off the lift so I could see the engine with the valve covers off and so on. Very nice!
And BTW, that timing belt cost me $1390.
In fairness, that $1390 also got me a new water pump and other belts and seals replaced at the same time.