Water pump GRAF or OEM Volkswagen

I have a 2011 it has 125K miles stage 2 tuned still running the original 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.

Graf has been pretty good to me.

I have the Graf brand on mine, replaced mine at around 120k miles. It’s aluminum and has aluminum impeller also.

We've had a 2009 GTI since new and now has 110k. In the last 16 years, we've replaced 2 water pumps, one dsg mech unit (under warranty), abs unit, pcv valve, rear main seal and in the past year, timing chain and guides as preventative maintenance.

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.

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

graf has failed on me twice prematurely

I just had to deal with a Graf pump failing at 6000 miles on my CRUA. Everything is low quality trash now.

Fuckt this shit why can’t VW the fix the root cause of the problem which is the goddamn shitty plastic waterpump?