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While there is no timing belt to worry about on the modern watercooled engines, the pumps still fail as often, if not more. Symptoms of a failing water pump can manifest as a “pulley noise”, grinding noise, or a small drip of coolant underneath the car.
cooling system, into the cylinder heads, and cause major issues in terms of a cracked head. Not good and not cheap to fix!
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While the failure above is ex-
treme, it could have been prevent- ed by replacing the original pump, and most importantly, when the car starts making a weird noise, stop driving it and get it checked out! There is no doubt this mo- tor will have pieces of that water pump stuck in the cylinder heads
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