Owner reviews for water pump

Screw NAPA. Get a Meyle or Graf water pump, they meet and exceed OE standards.

Water pump on the T4 EVWK went ok. But, it is a Saleri pump from Italy.

I ended up keeping the gates kit, I've put about 8k miles on it so far.

My water pump was replaced, I was given a loaner and some financial compensation ($599.00) towards the auto loan.

Do you still have the original water pump? Those has plastic impellers that fail. Replace it with a metal impeller pump (Graf and Hepu are ideal).

We have had our 2008 for a year and a half. It is a Komfort with 6spd manual and 2.0T. Bought it with 42k on it, currently has about 80k. Problems we have had so far are intake manifold, fuel injector cleaning, and waterpump. Overall we have been really happy with the car.

Use the bosch cobra pump, the crap that comes with those \"kits\" is junk. Those are a boat bilge pump. The cobra pump is $80 on Summit. I used a Mezzier pump that cost $200, it didn't flow much more than the cobra pump and failed just as quickly. The kit's pump only lasted me maybe 3 months.

Okay, so I installed a new aftermarket pump in my MK4 Jetta 2.0 last year. Went with the seemingly highly recommended GRAF metal impeller pump that many forum members across multiple forums seemed to stand behind... 14K miles later and it's leaking. Anyway, after doing some more research, it seems that it's considerably more common for aftermarket metal impeller pumps (especially GRAF, but seemingly all of them from what I can find) to fail prematurely for some reason...

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.

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.