EA888 Water pump failure

[brad]

Oh goody! 110,000km and various O-rings in the water pump have cacked themselves. The water pump seems OK but it would be stupidity to just do the O-rings because the water pump is buried under the inlet manifold.

Water pump $657
hose $50
labour, coolant, etc $400

So about $1100

I'm so glad I've saved servicing cost by getting the chain driven engine & not having to pay to get the belt/water pump/ pullies done every 105,000km (where is the worlds biggest "rolls-eyes" emoticon?)

bugger

[DoggiesUtd]

is this a common issue with this motor?

[brad]

i have no idea.

It's the first my mech has done but he was on the phone to another specialist & they'd done one yesterday.

Apparently I have high mileage for age & all his other Skoda customers have much less kms.

Such is life. Only the 2nd non-scheduled failure. Total non-planned work will have been $1500 after this. I don't think that's too bad.

I had a basic Corolla for the commute on Tuesday & if I had to live with that on a daily basis I would have found a job much closer to home by now.

I've got a Holden Colorado Twin Cab for the next week (car should be ready tomorrow but I have a week long training course at another site so it can sit at the workshop all week). The Colorado is pretty depressing too.

Can't wait to get the Octy back!

[boogz]

Pffft... Long km's hehehe

Try 163k (built Jan 0 I've just bought the car @160k so I don't know (contrary to service records) if the belt and water pump have been done (FSI motor) recently. My mechanic suggests every 60k, I don't know if that applies to TSI though

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[brad]

Every 60k for a belt - it's not an Alfa or a Holden Vectra.

EA888 TSI is chain driven cams

[woofy]

It's 105k/7 yrs for the TFSI and 90k is an inspection. The inspection at 60k/4yrs seems to be gone now. They all recommend changing the water pump at the same time usually. Previously it was 60k/4yrs for belt and I would have done the pump as well while they were there.

[DoggiesUtd]

Every 60k for a belt - it's not an Alfa or a Holden Vectra.

EA888 TSI is chain driven cams

i had a vectra until 2 weeks ago....only did one timing belt at 120 thousand...sold the car @ 140km
to be fair it did start having some troubles the last couple of months...and am glad i sold it within a week

[Dutch77]

Water pump failures in the EA888 seem to be a more common fault than the norm. I had one replaced inside 10k.

[Tigger]

I saw your car at Camden GTI!
Damn...(its the fault of the Red Stitched mats...)

Sorry to hear mate

[brad]

The grey diesel Octy in there was having all the inlets cleaned out. They had closed up 50% I'm told.

I had a look at mine & they aren't too bad - the valve stems might have about 2mm of build-up. I've told them to give them a wash.

makes me want to set-up some meth/water injection.