owners be aware of coolant pump failures. Something is not quite right to get faults at 3yr,3month old and 23,000 mls that requires renew cooling pump

and invariably the cam belt as garages are reluctant to do the pump alone,at cost over £6oo.

Reason.---Starting from cold, normal warmup to 90 degrees and stay steady for 5 mls, then a temp excursion to 110-12o for a further 4mls,then without any actions its drops rapidly to 90 and stays there all day with no further problems. No red lights or warnings are ever reached for high temp. Diagnostics showed a switch fault in the pump which is surprising as I assumed the pump to be purely mechanical. Skoda are being quite secretive about this pump problem which is happening to more and more but are not recalling as its not a safety issue, but I believe there is a recommend at service to change the coolant spec from G12 to G13 so watch out lads and lasses, it could happen to you.

If any mechanic out there can say what this additional thing in the pump is it would help.

Welcome.

There is a pinned thread at the top of the page.

There is also a Service Campaign and owners should not be paying for the coolant change.

 

They should not be paying when replaced under warranty water pumps are failing, sometimes replaced replacements failing, but they are.

 

http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions

 

Failures were at much sooner than three years, more like nearly new.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/426322-recall-on-diesel-cooling-issue

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/467825-part-number-help-required

 

Edited 30 July, 20196 yr by Roottootemoot

Water pumps have changed supplier again and currently on back order I think too. 

The pump is now a variable flow pump that limits flow during warm up so it heats up quicker. 

13 hours ago, Tech1e said:

Water pumps have changed supplier again and currently on back order I think too. 

 

The replacement water pump for my daughter's car, part number now ending in G rather than D, arrived yesterday morning from Listers via [email protected], excellent service and though it was on back order the turnaround time was still under a week.

 

12 hours ago, Tech1e said:

The pump is now a variable flow pump that limits flow during warm up so it heats up quicker. 

 

Me and technology are the problem here, if I knew how to upload a photo of the new pump I would do so prior to it being fitted.

 

Thanks again for help, for daughter it's a matter of booking in to local guy now and hopefully all is well thereafter. We chose to remove the pressure from daughter, she's not been too well and doesn't need the hassle from Skoda UK who were doing their usual "hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil" routine.