Or something coolant related. Wife was leaving for work this morning when the low coolant light came on. I went out and put some more g12 in and she was on her way. As soon as she left, I saw a big puddle of coolant in the driveway. She got about 20 minutes down the road and called to say the low coolant light was on again. I go to meet her and bring some more water and the stuff is everywhere from being slung off the belts. Fill it back up with water (about 3 quarts), trade vehicles, and I drove it to the dealer about 40 minutes away. The light never came on and temp never went over 210 the whole trip down, and when I parked the car at the dealer, after 10 minutes there was no coolant puddle under it. Friggin strange. Car did not leak anything overnight, but after starting this morning, it started to leak. Got to dealer, appears to be stopped. I'll post up after the service manager calls back. Now rolling in a dealer-provided Chevy HHR. Woo-hoo!!!! Hold it to the floor and feel the burn!
Any 09-10 TDI water pump leaks out there?
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Trust me, it is obvious it is not a hose clamp. They will see dried coolant as well as wet all around the water pump. There has been no TSB issued since they all have gone out under warranty.My concern is the dealership. I can predict they tell me it was a loose hose clamp and will claim ignorance on anything related to general issues with the water pump. Then it blows sometime soon when I need it most and I am inconvenienced yet again.
Bringing it to the dealer in an hour for the 10K service - will see what they say. I was hoping a TSB would help give me some evidence for them to fix it now - not after I am maybe stranded somewhere. I got rid of my Land Rover to avoid those events.
AndrewT
Well - I guessed right. They claimed no evidence of any coolant leak. Said the coolant level was fine and no signs of any leak anywhere.
I get a pink coolant puddle the size of a softball in my garage every night so not sure how this could be the case. And I have never added coolant or done anything that would account for that puddle in my garage (and no other car has parked there in the last 4 months).
I guess I have to wait until it implodes.
AndrewT
I get a pink coolant puddle the size of a softball in my garage every night so not sure how this could be the case. And I have never added coolant or done anything that would account for that puddle in my garage (and no other car has parked there in the last 4 months).
I guess I have to wait until it implodes.
AndrewT
I'd go to another dealer. Unfortunately - some dealers are just crap.
I suppose I will add my name to the list as well. Two days ago, a puddle appeared in the driveway. Drove the 2010 TDI down to the dealer this morning. By noon, the Service Writer called and said the water pump needs to be replaced. They ordered one immediately, but won't arrive until Friday. Kindly they offered a rent car.
Is it the housing that is failing because it's plastic? I know the 3.0T in the S4 has had a rash of cracking plastic water pump housings and they are being replaced with new units with metal housings and obviously all new ones are being produced with the new metal housing.
Mine definitely is now metal and it looked like plastic on the one that was pulled out. I was told the seal was bad on them in the sense there was a gap on them that just kept getting wider the more you drove it.
Hmm - too bad my ETKA is too old - but I would bet that the two engine share the same pump. The plastic was deforming and/or cracking at the seal causing the leak on the 3.0T's - sounds like the same thing here.
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I was talking to a tech who has now done 5 water pump replacements.
It's the gland that's gone on every one, and on each car he's done, it's let go on the motorway/freeway at speed and is a gusher stranding the vehicle each time.
So slightest leak - get it changed.
It's the gland that's gone on every one, and on each car he's done, it's let go on the motorway/freeway at speed and is a gusher stranding the vehicle each time.
So slightest leak - get it changed.
Mine was a gusher just sitting in the garage when I started it up one morning.
I have not heard of it, but the pump is different from the one it came with, so I am not worried about it.
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I was at my dealer today for unrelated work and heard much the same.
Within the past couple days, a 'campaign' went into effect for the V6TDI's water pump.
So all owners should be hearing something in the near future about this. (It's about time.) :clapclap:
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Please tell me this is true! And what's the deal on the "coolant pump" failures, isn't that the same things a water pump?
Water pump, same thing.
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Mine has been at the dealer for a week now trying to fix the intermittent alarm - key FOB problem "for the 2nd time, BTW", the intermittent 4-low error it keeps getting on power up "for the 2nd time, too", so I asked them to go ahead and do the waterpump replacement recall if there is one. They were clueless on what I was talking about except for of course recently having to replace 2 water pumps.
Should I have them keep it a couple more days to wait on the recall or do these recalls takes weeks/months to actually happen?
thanks,
Should I have them keep it a couple more days to wait on the recall or do these recalls takes weeks/months to actually happen?
thanks,
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