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I have a 2013 GTI on the original water pump at 100k miles.
Pros: original, high mileage
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 160934 km
I have a 2016 GTI. A little over 50,000 miles on it. No issues yet.
Pros: no issues at 50,000 miles
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 80467 km
I'm rocking 110k miles on the original pump here on a 2015.
Pros: 110k miles on original
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 177027 km
2 water pumps (both under warranty) 3rd one it's on..so far so good. Those repairs cost me nothing.
Pros: warranty covered repairs
Cons: repeated failures
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 115000 km
Last time I got a new Gates water pump (made in china) the flange position on the shaft was a little different than my old one but it was close enough.
Pros: close enough
Cons: flange position different
Gates water pumps failed on both my friend's Toyota Echo and my Sienna, his after under a year and mine in about 2 years. Less than 3,000 miles on my Sienna since pump was changed. Ugh. The labor cost, of course, is the bee-atch, more than the pump cost, of course.
Cons: pumps failed, high labor cost
Vehicle:
Toyota Sienna
Mileage: 4828 km
It’s a Vw water pump. It would have failed shortly after install anyway
Cons: poor reliability, fails quickly
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I bought a Gates water pump off Amazon thinking I could go with a name I trust. Impeller grenaded after 5 months and less than 6k driven.
Pros: trusted brand initially
Cons: failed quickly
Mileage: 6000 km
Had a 2016 GTI and went through two water pumps before the car hit 90k miles. Both covered under the extended warranty VW has on them. They’re a known failure part at this point.
Cons: two failures, known failure part
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 90000 km
My mk7 water pump went out at 76k and will probably need to be done soon I’m at 135k now. I live in the heat of arizona too. It really gets tested here.
Cons: failed at 76k miles, prone to failure
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 76000 km
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