Water pump Gates or OEM Volkswagen

I have had very good experiences with the NEW Gates pumps and they make a replacement tube as well. I have installed them in 17 4.0 engines over the last 4 years and had no comeback failures.

Yeah I bought the water pump assembly from the dealer that came with the thermostat installed.

I have VW 2.0T in my GTI, it has been trouble free for 35k miles so far. Not sure how much different is Audi 2.0T from VW 2.0T, but leaking water pumps / thermostat housings are weak spots on all of them and you can almost be sure on replacing those at some point.

The water pump on my 2017 mk7 lasted nearly 100k miles before crapping out on me. :( Quite a pricey repair job, that was.

Replaced mine when it started leaking at 107,000km… man it’s annoying

Mine is a 2019 (abiet a GTI) and it's on its 3rd water pump

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.

Someday, VAG will figure out how to make a water pump. *That day is not today.*

My waterpump just leaked.