Reviews of Gates water pump

Gates is the brand everyone get and refers to for the water pump. Good quality and cheap enough. If you can't get gates. There are two main impeller designs. Cast and sheet metal tabs. Supposedly the cast impeller design performs better. So if you're ordering from a generic parts store, make sure it's the cast impeller design (but the sheet metal design works just fine).

I had a gates kit on my Subaru and the water pump failed and leaked after less than 1000 miles.

The water pumps i’ve seen leak a few times on the v6 hondas.

Gates is crap. Bought their water pump and it failed less than a year and leaked the whole time.

Mine broke in less than 500 miles and their replacement broke too (which I paid for till I returned them the faulty one back) in less than 500 miles on an Audi A1. Now they have my money for 2 water pumps and I paid for labour costs of replacing twice, and waiting for a refund decision for more than a month. AVOID!!!

Water pumps, I tend to stick with OEM now. Gates used to be great but has gone down hill imo.

Get a Gates water pump. Good quality part for a good price.

Don’t use a Gates kit or if you do purchase the Gates kit without the water pump and get a different brand water pump. Gates water pumps have an enormously high failure rate in the last several years and it sucks to have to do the job twice.

Water pump failed on the gates timing belt kit and engine shredded only 16000 miles on it

Gates water pump failure