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See my water pump!

  • 06-05-2011 12:51pm
    #1
    deandean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭


    '04 Audi A4 2.0 Petrol.

    The replacement has a metal impellor.


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  • #2
    voxpop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    Pretty common - always use metal impeller pumps myself


  • #3
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    That disappoints me tbh, thought Audi were supposed to be the great bastion of quality German engineering

    Instead they skimp out and make a vital part like that out of fecking plastic. If TATA did that I wouldn't mind but i really didn't expect it from audi


  • #4
    voxpop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    Daegerty wrote: »
    That disappoints me tbh, thought Audi were supposed to be the great bastion of quality German engineering

    All car manufacturers do it - saves a bit of cash no doubt, plus I guess if you change the pump when doing the Tbelt as recommended then you prob wouldnt come across the problem.


  • #5
    deandean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭deandean


    Daegerty wrote: »
    That disappoints me tbh, thought Audi were supposed to be the great bastion of quality German engineering

    Naah, that'd be BMW. Bimmer would NEVER be so dumb as to use a plastic water pump impeller...oh, hang on...:rolleyes:


  • #6
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Plastic lasts as long as it needs to, that is, for the duration of a 3 year warranty. After that, having plastic parts actually makes the manufacturers money. No mystery here. :(


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  • #7
    beachlife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭beachlife


    what miles are on the pump?

    I would always fit a genuine pump and have no problems with them doing the 60,000 or 70,000 miles.
    I have had a couple of cars where the pump wasn't changed until 120,000
    but one was over heating (impeller rotating on shaft) the other was fine.

    The genuine ones don't leak after 20,000 miles like some of the cheap scrap out there.


  • #8
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    voxpop wrote: »
    All car manufacturers do it - saves a bit of cash no doubt, plus I guess if you change the pump when doing the Tbelt as recommended then you prob wouldnt come across the problem.

    ah feck sake the water pump is probably the most annoying part of the tb job, if they were made a bit better they would last for 2 maybe 3 timing belts like mine did although it was fairly worn and rusty looking after removing it but what can you expect if its been in there for 20 years


  • #9
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Daegerty wrote: »
    That disappoints me tbh, thought Audi were supposed to be the great bastion of quality German engineering

    Instead they skimp out and make a vital part like that out of fecking plastic. If TATA did that I wouldn't mind but i really didn't expect it from audi


    Thats a very out of date view IMO, VAG group cars are made to a price like every car these days and they certainly don't have any quality or reliability advantage over any other marque.


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