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Offline Chris92

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Re: Water pump failure odds
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2016, 11:59:08 pm »
It's very unlikely for the water pump pulley to just come off altogether without anything coming to your attention first, if it starts to fail it most likely to start making a noise or/and start to leak coolant before it takes your engine.
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Re: Water pump failure odds
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2016, 08:17:41 am »
Not on my Ed30 but on our Passat CC. The water pump started leaking coolant mid December - turned out the seal had failed. Car was just over 4 years cold and done 70k on original cambelt and water pump. All changed under AA Garage cover.
It must be noted that the CC's cambelt is on a different change interval to out MK5's. Im not sure if the water pumps are different in terms of durability between the  types of cars -i.e are cars with cambelts that need changing every 5 years / 100k miles (or whatever the new mileage is) vs Cars that need the cablet changing every 4 years or 40k miles like our mk5's?

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