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So it turned out to be the water pump. According to the service manager, they've had plenty of TSI engines come through with the same problem and he wasn't surprised about my issue. The repair was covered under the powertrain warranty. I'm happy to have my Tig back.
Pros: repair covered under warranty
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Mileage: 40000 km
Irregardless of what route you go, just make sure your water pump has a metal impeller and not a plastic one. The plastic one (factory on many VW) chips off and degrades over time causing all kinds of cooling issues.
Pros: metal impeller
Cons: plastic one chips off
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Turned out to be the water pump
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Only main issues I saw were leaking vacuum pumps, valve cover gaskets, pcv leaks (whole valve cover assembly) and water pump sepage.
Cons: water pump sepage
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I had been hearing a hitch-pitched noise from my engine that almost sounded like a vacuum cleaner about 5-10 minutes after engine start up. Took the car into the dealer to find that it was a water pump failure (as I kind of knew from poking around here). It looks like this is a fairly common issue for 2012's unfortunately, but just a heads up for people as this didn't trigger a CEL or anything.
Pros: no CEL triggered
Cons: water pump failure, common issue
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Jetta
Then I hear a squeal in the water pump and a few days later it dies a silent steamy death.
Cons: squeal, silent steamy death
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I joined the water pump failure club this week in my 2013 GTI. Got lucky and they happened to have one sitting around the dealer...
Pros: one at the dealer
Cons: water pump failure
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Had the first water pump replaced 02/13. The coolant warning light went on this week so I made an appointment with my dealer. 25k and on the 2nd replacement water pump.
Pros: got a loaner car
Cons: coolant warning light, 2nd replacement
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 25000 km
I just had my secondary water pump replaced a month ago. Yesterday I found a huge puddle of coolant in my driveway. Off to the VW dealer again. This time it's the water pump.
Cons: huge puddle of coolant
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I've a 2012 GTI with just over 9K miles on it that had a water pump leak on me yesterday. Took to dealer and got it back this afternoon. I live 2 miles from the dealer and drove home no problem. On the way to my parents 40th wedding anniversary dinner this evening no more than another 2 miles after I left home it had another major leak happen. The coolant reservoir had completely cracked and I had coolant all over my engine compartment.
Pros: drove home no problem
Cons: water pump leak, coolant cracked
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 9000 km
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