Water pump AISIN or Saleri

When I bought Aisin water pumps for some of my other Toyota/Lexus vehicles, the embossed Toyota emblem on the pump would be ground off.

I have a Saleri pump with a Victor reinz paper gasket. I did not realize during my replacement that oem isn’t paper as that’s what was already on there, and haven’t had a problem. Interested to know if they fail slowly or suddenly and if I have to add another preventative maintenance item to my list, but it’s been going strong for 30K miles.

Get the Aisin one off rockauto, I just replaced mine with it.

You can save yourself some time and money by buying the Aisin water pump / timing belt kit on RockAuto. Don’t mess around with other ones. The parts are all the same OEM you’d get from Subaru at a fraction of the cost, except for the pump itself — but that’s a good thing because while Aisin didn’t make the pump for these, they were an OE pump maker for Subaru and the company that made the OE one for that generation (Gates) has apparently started producing crap. I don’t think Subaru even uses them anymore for their OEM pump.

You should use Aisin or OEM water pumps.

When I do side jobs I use an aisin branded water pump and timing belt tensioner. The aisin kit is top notch.

The inverter water pump is a fairly common failure on the second gen Prius. The pump runs anytime the car is on, and it just wears out.

I had Saleri in for 50k miles with no issues. Then, after a cooling refresh, I bought Saleri again, and it's been 20k miles with no issues so far.

I bought a saleri water pump with plans to install it myself. When I realized the job would be a little harder than I expected I decided to take it to a shop to install. They just sent me a report saying that they installed the saleri and it “was not within the tolerances for the spec” and it began “leaking immediately”. There solution is to order me a graf water pump which they describe as a “reputable” brand which insinuates that I brought them a water pump worse than a graf which from my research doesn’t seem to be true. I’m a little frustrated as they are billing me $400 extra to buy and install the Graf when I thought the saleri one should’ve been fine.

My 1 year, \~6K miles Aisin WPT-108 pump failure story:

I have a 4A-FE Corolla E11. Changed timing belt, auxiliary belts, tensioner+spring, the whole lot last summer. The waterpump (Aisin WPT-108) was from a reputable online shop here in Europe (Autodoc). Last week I come to find the new pump dripping from the lower weep hole, so its the whole timing belt job all over again pretty much. No wierd bearing sounds. I did 6K miles last year if that.