Reviews of OEM Volkswagen water pump

OEM ones with version letters later than, IIRC, M at the end of the number and certainly all the later double letter ones have no issues.

2018 fatlas here. 3.6L 87000km on my second water pump.

My 16’ mk7 is showing some age, and it is in the shop now for water pump & thermostat (leaks unfortunately at 95k mi, original pump).

I have a 2010 VW Tiguan, it has almost 102,000 miles on it... The garage said to fix what probably is the water pump would be very costly, the water pump is buried in the car, he said removing parts would add more costs with brittle hoses, etc.

If VW made the EA888 engine without a waterpump made of soft cheese.

I still bought one. But it would be good not to treat a waterpump as a regular service item.

Water pump you will want to raise the engine to gain access to the water pump. I suggest you use a metal impeller replacement and not a plastic one like the factory original.

I have no idea how there isn't a class action against VW for those shoddy waterpumps tho. Had to do it on my one and literally every VW owner I've spoken to has had it be a problem

My GTI’s water pump shat itself around 60k kilometres too :( going strong since but it’s a very common fault unfortunately

21 atlas with 120k here. No major issues. Just regular maintenance stuff. Replaced a leaky water pump with is a normal thing.

Waterpump leaking at 120km Belt was like new.