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Water pump Gates or Pierburg
Pierburg. It’s literally exactly the same just no BMW logo.
Pros: exactly same as OEM
Vehicle:
BMW
Pierburg is the OEM maker of the BMW water pump. Spending the extra for the BMW is ridiculous when they are 100% the same exact same pump from the same company from the same factory.
Pros: OEM quality, same as BMW
Cons: BMW overpriced
Vehicle:
BMW
I have a Gates part with a plastic impeller in my car now and it's been attached to that motor since late 2015 with no issues when it was in my e34 and isn't showing any issues now in my E30.
Pros: long lasting, no issues
Vehicle:
BMW
Water pumps, I tend to stick with OEM now. Gates used to be great but has gone down hill imo.
Pros: stick with OEM
Cons: Gates gone downhill
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
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
Installed this GATES water pump 5k miles ago…. Pully seems wobbly as fuck, safe to assume it’s already going out? gonna have to find a better brand
Cons: pulley wobbly, premature failure
Mileage: 8047 km
I picked the pierburg for all aluminum casing and impeller. They were both about the same price last time I needed to get one. Note that the pierburg failed at not even 10k miles. I replaced with another pierburg chalking it up to bad luck. The only advantage I can think of with the pierburg is the fact that you can torque down the hoses that use clamps and not have to worry about cracking the housing. But in reality doubtful that is a risk. Also it won’t be in service long enough to get brittle enough to matter.
Pros: all aluminum casing, torque down hoses
Cons: failed prematurely
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 10000 km
I had a gates kit on my Subaru and the water pump failed and leaked after less than 1000 miles.
Cons: failed and leaked, short lifespan
Vehicle:
Subaru
Mileage: 1000 km
The water pumps i’ve seen leak a few times on the v6 hondas.
Cons: leak a few times
Vehicle:
Honda
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