water pump replacement needed after 55,000 kms

[Lively]

Hi everyone,

I actually posted this question on another forum earlier today. I hope it is ok that I re-post it here (I'm in a bit of a rush to get an answer as we are supposed to take our car in for repairs on Monday):

We have a 2012 Golf 118 TSI Comfortline. It has recently started making a noise and, though it has only done 55,000 kms, we were told that the problem is the water pump and that it would need to be replaced. VW have offered to pay half the replacement cost (we would have to pay about $500-$600). Is this reasonable? Doing a bit of searching online it seems that car water pumps should last about 100,000 to 150,000 kms, for example see:

How long does a water pump last? | HowStuffWorks

Is it worth trying to push VW to cover the whole cost? If they don’t agree is there much that we can do?

Cheers

[Hillbilly]

Water pump replacement is usually done with timing belts/chains/tensioners after 105,000km OR 7YEARS so is about due.


If you do both together its about $1300 and its wise as to do the pump is as much work as doing both

I paid for mine after the 7 years but car had only done 42000km

[Transporter]

Water pump replacement is usually done with timing belts/chains/tensioners after 105,000km OR 7YEARS so is about due.


If you do both together its about $1300 and its wise as to do the pump is as much work as doing both

I paid for mine after the 7 years but car had only done 42000km

Chain driven engine mate in his.

[Hillbilly]

Chain driven engine mate in his.

Thats why I wrote timing belts/chains/tensioners Nothing lasts forever and plastic water pumps certainly dont and it seems the 7 years

is recommended life expectancy

Yep I looked it up first

[Transporter]

Thats why I wrote timing belts/chains/tensioners Nothing lasts forever and plastic water pumps certainly dont and it seems the 7 years

is recommended life expectancy

Yep I looked it up first

The chain driven engines don’t have set timing chain replacement interval and should last life of the engine, therefor you don’t replace the water pump with the chain and tensioner and there aren’t replacement intervals for the water pumps.

[Lively]

Thanks for the replies everyone. So is it reasonable that we have to pay half of the replacement cost?

Also: sorry for the late reply - I was expecting an email notification that someone had replied to my post.

[Hillbilly]

Thanks for the replies everyone. So is it reasonable that we have to pay half of the replacement cost?

Also: sorry for the late reply - I was expecting an email notification that someone had replied to my post.

Up to you I paid for mine because it was only an extra $250 on top of what I was getting done.

I think you have to tick email notifications in your profile to get them

[ttenroca]

Its a PITA job. If they are paying half that is good, but it should last longer. Mine went at 40k