HycoteWorkshop Belt Slip, 400 ml

The venerable Yamaha mini hifi had given sterling service, but the CD drawer wouldn't open anymore. Being a tinkerer, rather than replace for £300, I opened it up, cleaned it etc and thought about changing the tray drive belt, but didn't because a similar repair on a cassette deck hadn't worked. THe CD drawer still didn't open after the clean but a bit of Googling suggested this stuff might work. As I also had a squeaky transmission drive belt in the car I thought I'd get some anyway. Somewhat to my surprise it works very effectively. You don't need much. Just a quick spray. The drive belt feels a bit stickier at first and then dries out. OPens at the touch of a button now, as before. Now for the car.

Cost to undertake a belt replacepment and potentially tensioner pulley excessively expensive , I will need to do this job in the future however, the original belt shows no signs of cracking etc.Spray works well but is not instant takes a few miles and or a couple days running before the belt runs quietly. Has been running very quietly for several weeks.

Very fast (next day) delivery of Hycote Belt Dressing Spray. Before I used it on my squeeling and useless Power Steering Pump belt, I gave an extra couple of turns of the Belt Tensioner screw, and the problem disappeared by itself!...So I cannot comment on whether the spray works or not, but at least I'm not faced with a Large Bill for new Pump...

Overpriced. You could use any oil for the same effect.

Did the job

Fan belt was slipping when cold, as the engine warmed squealing stopped, so I bought this to try and cure the slipping altogether, but it did the opposite, it was constantly squealing, so the garage had to remove the fan belt, clean all the belt slip off the belt and pulleys, not a peep out of it now, fingers crossed 🤞 IT DOESN'T DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN, so I'm returning it for a full refund

Good stuff belt just started to make some noise not much mind but enough to make my car sound old if you know what I mean. anyway I got a can of this stuff as didn't want to go down the old school route of using hair spray . I have to say it worked a treat truck sounds like it was when new. Ok so while truck was running I sprayed the top side of the belt not tones but not sparingly either a good coat . Then I stopped said truck an sprayed the groove side of the belt where seen an where I couldn't get the belt groove's I sprayed the grooves on the pulleys bonnet down ran truck five ten minutes ( to local shops) job done will it last yeh I recon so top tip degrease bet first if needed I use that yellow stuff .

Belt slip