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[henryd]

Ok then, so what about the CDX I broke last month, the Auxiliary belt tensioner had siezed causing the auxiliary belt to snap, parts of which made itself under the cambelt cover causing the cambelt to jump teeth and bending lots and lots of valves ......

In life, sh1t happens.  The last time my fan belt broke,it .....................er just broke & my temp gauge went up. Breaking the habit of a life time I got the car recovered the remaining couple of miles home & I replaced the belt when I got a replacement.
Which is better? A second hand OE pump or a new generic pump  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
FIGHT!!!!!! 

I'd go for OE every time. 

Ok so how do you know that the one thats in there is OE in the first place, its could be a pattern one, so do you leave it there or pay £70 plus for a OE one

anyone for popcorn,this could run...................

[aaronjb]

Ok then, so what about the CDX I broke last month, the Auxiliary belt tensioner had siezed causing the auxiliary belt to snap, parts of which made itself under the cambelt cover causing the cambelt to jump teeth and bending lots and lots of valves ......

In life, sh1t happens.  The last time my fan belt broke,it .....................er just broke & my temp gauge went up. Breaking the habit of a life time I got the car recovered the remaining couple of miles home & I replaced the belt when I got a replacement.
Which is better? A second hand OE pump or a new generic pump  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
FIGHT!!!!!! 

I'd go for OE every time. 

Ok so how do you know that the one thats in there is OE in the first place, its could be a pattern one, so do you leave it there or pay £70 plus for a OE one

anyone for popcorn,this could run...................

[Andy B]

Ok then, so what about the CDX I broke last month, the Auxiliary belt tensioner had siezed causing the auxiliary belt to snap, parts of which made itself under the cambelt cover causing the cambelt to jump teeth and bending lots and lots of valves ......

In life, sh1t happens.  The last time my fan belt broke,it .....................er just broke & my temp gauge went up. Breaking the habit of a life time I got the car recovered the remaining couple of miles home & I replaced the belt when I got a replacement.
Which is better? A second hand OE pump or a new generic pump  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
FIGHT!!!!!! 

I'd go for OE every time. 

Ok so how do you know that the one thats in there is OE in the first place, its could be a pattern one, so do you leave it there or pay £70 plus for a OE one

cos the last pump that went on was bought on TC before prices went daft. The pump I took off was on the car when I bought it when the car was only 4yr old.
& there wasn't actually owt wrong with it, my leak was an OE HBV & not the water pump as I'd thought.

Note to self Look at the engine to diagnose & not guess where your water loss is. 

[Elite Pete]

Thats all good and well, but how many people have owned thier car since the last belt change and can say that the water pump was replaced then and not the belt change before that

[joff]

On my first V6 a 2000 3ltr paid the main dealer to fit new came belt(about £350 i think) was not a forum member then and 4 mths later water pump went on the M4 took the aux belt with it. I will always replace both but that's just me

[Andy B]

Thats all good and well, but how many people have owned thier car since the last belt change and can say that the water pump was replaced then and not the belt change before that

As I've said before ...... a lot depends whether you're doing the work yourself, or whether you're paying someone else to do the work. If someone else is on the spanners it's probably cheaper in the longer run while they're there to replace it. 

[alank46]

Surely, the part that needs changing is the auxiliary belt tensioner, not the water pump, after all in the example given it was the tensioner that failed and caused the problem.
Alan

[feeutfo]

Surely, the part that needs changing is the auxiliary belt tensioner, not the water pump, after all in the example given it was the tensioner that failed and caused the problem.
Alan

Seized water pump would have the same effect as it's on the aux belt run. But we could say that could happen with any component on the aux belt run. Are we to change all those as well on each cam belt change? No!

For me the important question is what's the life of the component? So every other cb change makes sense. But then how many water pump failures do we see on here? Never changed a water pump myself, baring always seem ok to me.

Certainly won't be doing mine at 80k. 8-). Although it's due (cb) on time this year, better check actually. :-/