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Water pump OEM BMW or Pierburg
I went from that just up to the Pierburg ones and it was a night and day difference.
Pros: significant improvement, better performance
have a pierburg water pump, it’s holding up pretty well.
Pros: holding up well
The Pierburg pump is an all aluminum upgrade. I put one in a couple months ago. It works great, less prone to leaking and I have only ever read/heard good things about it. It is even a few dollars cheaper than the OE VDO pump.
Pros: works great, less prone to leaking, all aluminum
Mine was still going at 123k. I did have a shadow code (2E85) but that had been there for years. I decided to replace it out of caution and. Now have about 10k on the new one.
Cons: shadow code for years
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 10000 km
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
New parts should be in tomorrow (Pierburg pump). I'll update again after everything is back in! As a small detail, I noticed a brown seal-looking thing stuck in the impeller of the water pump (Continental, BMW logo. Probably factory) I am thinking the pump internally failed while spinning, and the internals took the hit and self-destructed. Hence the total BSD failure code. Just a guess though.
Cons: pump internally failed
Vehicle:
BMW
I too chose pierburg from fcp. Questionable weather it\u2019s any better than oem. I appreciated the all aluminum housing of the pierburg as it provides one less failure point which is the possibility of the plastic cracking due to an over torqued hose clamp.
Pros: all aluminum housing, less failure point
Cons: questionable improvement over OEM
Vehicle:
BMW
This has happened to my husband. He drives 2021 m340i with 17k miles. Water pump exploded last night.
Cons: water pump exploded
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 27359 km
I would get a vdo/continental water pump. I’ve bought the all aluminum water pump from pierburg and it died in about 800 miles.
Cons: died in 800 miles
Mileage: 800 km
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