water pump leaking

[darno]

Had cooling system serviced about 6 months ago. started to smell coolant about three weeks ago, car has gone back to be checked out, water pump was found to be leaking. had it replaced three weeks ago ($450) and now it's leaking again. any idea's?

[CMA]

Same situation happened to me but after a week. Took the car back, turned out to be a faulty water pump, got it replaced for nothing

[andyman]

Had cooling system serviced about 6 months ago. started to smell coolant about three weeks ago, car has gone back to be checked out, water pump was found to be leaking. had it replaced three weeks ago ($450) and now it's leaking again. any idea's?

workshops have to warrant their work, and the parts have warranty too, as long as you have invoices saying you've paid for it, take it back

[VR38]

now it's leaking again. any idea's?

Cheep import shit.

[andyman]

Cheep import shit.

going by the price of the job yes it was, believe it or not genuine holden water pump for an alloytec is 450 bucks trade,

i bought an aftermarket one for mine from Holden btw, it was 70 odd, it was made in Australia but

[VR38]

Who is making waterpumps in Aust???

[andyman]

Who is making waterpumps in Aust???

mine was made by Turner drive shafts and suspension

[Cyaegha]

I had mine replaced about 3 services ago. When I complained to my new service dept about having to replenish the water on several occasions, they said that there was no glycol in the system at all, it was just water. They did a flush and put some new coolant in, then about 10k later I'm back saying I'm having to put water in it again, my missus even got a coolant alarm while she was driving it. They reckon the overflow hose was not on properly and when they did a pressure test, they found a small leak at the water pump, if it keeps leaking I'll have to replace it.

I've tried four different Holden service depts and I'm not overly impressed with any of them. I'm moving to the sunshine coast in a few weeks though, so the hunt will start all over again...

Anyway, this whole water pump thing is bullshit, how long should they be lasting? Since I got the car second hand about two years ago I've had the following fixed:
O2 sensor
Ignition coil
Rear suspension
battery
Front suspension reworked to get rid of a clunking noise
water pump
front bumper resprayed (prev owner or caryard did a shit job to make it look good)
numerous wheel alignments and balances
SRS Airbag fault (they had to reset codes and it was sweet, charged me ~$119 for the trouble)
two sets of tires (WTF is up with the rear camber on these things, the tires wear out on the inside and they reckon you can't adjust them)
There's some other shit I can't recall right now. I'm just sick of forking out $1200 on this thing every few months. I do do about 45k klms per year, but ****.

Anwyay </rant>

[greenacc]

nothing to do with water pumps, but mr cytheria above it might pay you to get a rear camber kit fitted to give you more camber adjustment on the rear tyres.