Water pump Hepu or OEM Volkswagen

Hepu pumps are the best.

Water pump if stock would have a plastic impeller known to fail, but you can find metal impeller options from Graf and Hepu brands and from other aftermarket brands too.

in the last 10+ years have been using HEPU waterpumps.

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.

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.

Waterpump leaking at 120km Belt was like new.

If the hepu water pump I put on my 3.0T is anything to go by, I don't know that I would recommend them for chains.

I put a Hepu water pump in about 20k miles ago.

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