RobbyP

Just thought I'd share this with you....
While travelling back from visiting relatives last weekend, and having just made an unscheduled stop on the A1 (3 year old Archie needed a wee), my wife guns the car a little to get back into the flow of traffic. A mile or so down the road she notices the temp gauge going skywards (shes been well trained) and manages to pull off the road again just before the temp warning light starts to flash. She gives the car 10 minutes to cool off and then goes again. Half a mile down the road the temp goes skywards again and she pulls off and calls the cavalry (me). The car has cooled off again by the time I get there and we swap the kids into the other car and I nurse the Octy home.

The temp stayed in control if I kept the revs below 2000rpm and as a precaution had the heater on flat out to lose a bit more heat.

So Cath (wife) asks me whats oop wi' car (shes from the north you know....) and after 10 minutes searching this magnificent forum I come up with the answer (I can hear you all shouting it) 'You've bust the water pump luv'

Car booked in for cam belt kit (including tensioners and idlers) and pump change today. I asked the garage to keep hold of the old pump - lo and behold, the plastic impellor has fallen off the shaft !!
All done and dusted for just less than £300.

Incidentally, I spoke to a local Skoda 'specialist' about this and he had never heard of this type of failure on one of these engines (not much of a specialist then)

So now I've got a new pump and belt, its off for a re-map (wonder if she'll notice the difference?)

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bengie

what perfect timing(not for you like) seeing as a few people having asking if its worth changing the pump when doing the cam belt.

that seems like a very good price aswell on doing the lot

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Turbo_Boss

Thats the old excuse the Skoda dealer alway says!............You are the first one with that problem

So, just curious............ Do you know if the new water pump has a metal impeller or it still comes with the plastic one?

THX,

Isaac

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bengie

if it was done by skoda tehn they would have used skoda parts so a plastic impellor

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RobbyP

The work was done at a local independant garage. It wasn't a genuine Skoda pump and it had a metal impellor (made sure of that having read all the posts about it on here)

Rob