Water pump Pierburg or OEM Volkswagen

Pierburg is the OEM maker of the BMW water pump. Spending the extra for the BMW is ridiculous when they are 100% the same exact same pump from the same company from the same factory.

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.

levels dropped and signs of leakage. Dealer verified that water pump was leaking and replaced under warranty.

After wrapping up and turning it back on the CEL/MIL light comes on for Aux water pump and they replaced that too the next day.

My 2019 Tiguan SE 4motion with about 20,000 miles has been telling me to add coolant every few weeks. Today I dropped the car off at my local VW dealership stating I had a possible coolant leak. Just got a call from the service advisor saying hey will need to keep the car overnight bc they have to replace the waterpump!

I am now at about 55k and the water pump failed on it causing it to overheat. I learned that the 2015 gen 3 TDIs have a variable water pump that fails quite often causing overheating - just a matter of time.

The water pump on our 2019 GTI fully failed a couple of months ago (turns out what I've been smelling since we got the car new was likely a very slow drip of coolant leaking). Well within warranty, well under the mileage.

They replaced the water pump after it failed around 35k on my 2017 alltrack.

Failed on my 2016 after 1 year and 17K.