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[Stu.C]

Evening folks,


On my shopping list is a new water pump for the X30XE, whilst I'm doing the cambelt. A perusal of ebay offers up choices from First Line, QH and Borg & Beck, among others. Are they all much of a muchness these days, or even exactly the same but in different boxes? Or is there a preferable (readily available) alternative you'd recommend ?


Nothing particularly conclusive turned up in Search... 


Cheers, Stu

[JamesV6CDX]

I've had great results with Circoli from Euro Car Parts. About £30... and seems well built, without the thin pulley that some cheap pumps have....

[Doctor Gollum]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363757469955?_ul=GB

Here do. Genuine metal impeller one

[Enceladus]

For Omega V6 parts you can also check Saab V6 parts as the engines are the same.

Here's a genuine Saab pump that cross references the GM Opel part numbers for the pump you want. So should be the same. Confirm for yourself.

Buying from the USA, as suggested above, will involve foreign currency transaction charges, high postage charges (assuming they will ship it out of the USA at all, some will only ship to the lower 48 states), a Royal Mail clearance fee if posted, else an even larger clearance fee if couriered and VAT on UK arrival payable to RM before delivery. You'll probably avoid the duty charges since it's less than £130. So a last resort really.               

[Doctor Gollum]

It's £30 plus shipping.

Hardly a big deal for a genuine waterpump. But if you insist, they are readily available her for £59... If you CBA to look

[Enceladus]

You forgot to post the link?

[Doctor Gollum]

You forgot to post the link?

Is your Interwebs broken?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/111925952977

£59 to your door

[dave the builder]

You forgot to post the link?

Is your Interwebs broken?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/111925952977

£59 to your door

That's American internet 
we like to buy our "made in China" Ebay tat off the UK internet 

[Doctor Gollum]

You forgot to post the link?

Is your Interwebs broken?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/111925952977

£59 to your door

That's American internet 
we like to buy our "made in China" Ebay tat off the UK internet 

Which makes zero sense when you can buy genuine for similar money... (or better if you include replacing the Chinesey crap three or four times more often)

[Doctor Gollum]

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[grifter]

Usually go for meyle water pumps, readily available on t-internet

[STEMO]

I think the title of the thread is fairly accurate.

[Stu.C]

Thanks for the considered opinion folks 


In summary, I'd take the consensus as avoid the bottom of the barrel - potentially with plastic or thin metal bits - as it's just false economy. There's a variety of mid-range options just a slight notch up the price scale, but with the benefit for me of your real world experience to give names to look for.




I'm not paying daft amounts for one, as it's a routine enough item that's been widely used across different cars, which means there's plenty of options. Other folks can if they want, I've no problem with that. Maybe they've got a high-revving, turbo-nutter engine, or they're just really pernickity, but mine's just a standard engine that came out of the Ellesmere Port plant by the thousands. Nor am I buying one in from the States - partly because of that, partly because I don't want to wait a month for it to maybe turn up, partly because I don't want customs forms, and partly because I disagree with needlessly adding to the global logistics chain. I'm not kidding myself that I'm saving trees or anything, it's just the last resort isn't my first choice 

[Doctor Gollum]

I have had more issues buying from Carparts4less/Eurocrapparts than from the US.

So it's horses for courses IMHO.

I would rather buy an OE one for a sensible price and wait a week or two than drive to Essex to buy one for half the price. And if you want OE quality parts, then buy OE parts. Especially if you can buy them for half the PugVaux price.

[Enceladus]

How exactly is the Saab branded part any less OE than the Cadillac / AC Delco part? At the relevant time Saab was a GM brand and the V6 used was the same 54 Deg V6 made in Ellesmere port that was used in the Omega B/B2 and the Cadillac Catera. A genuine Saab pump at £30 delivered and it's already in the UK, that's the same or better priced than the aftermarket versions.