172 Waterpump

[Brett]

Is it necessary to change the waterpump on a 172 at the same time as the cambelt and aux kit.

The price difference is £125 between the two. I know the waterpump is driven off the aux belt so if it goes the cambelt wouldn't need re-doing.

This would be on a ph1 172 by the way. 2nd belt changes.

Brett

 

[Fred@BTM]

£125 for a waterpump? b-limey

if its getting to silly mileage then i'd swap it, but if its at relativley sensible mileage leave it

 

[Brett]

69K, would you leave it at that mileage?

 

[Fred@BTM]

tough one to call mate!

 

[Andrew Cooke]

that sounds about £100 too expensive. I've just done the belts on mine at 73K, I could feel a bit of play in the pump, so swapped it. I'll never know whether it was necessary, but for what it cost I did it.

 

[Andyman]

Eh? £69 from Renault for a waterpump. I priced one up just about 4 days ago

 

[Brett]

Thats including fitting and coolant.

 

[Martin_172]

pumps are ok on all engines apart from the 1.2 16v in my experiance, id leave it unless its on silly millage (well over 100k) or been run on horrible coolant or just water as the coolant lubes the pump.

 

[Brett]

Ok i'll take all that on board. I'm thinking of just getting it looked at when I go and make a decsion then. I trust both of the people i'm weighing up getting it done with anyway.

 

[maynard]

if this is your second belt change, id change it for peace of mind. but that's just me.

 

[Whiteley]

Got a conti pump from my factors the other day, £15 inc vat.

 

[Alastair.]

whenever i do a cambelt on my own cars i always renew the water pump and coolant, mite aswel whilst everything is off. Could start leaking or even fail 100miles down the road. always worth doing.

 

[franx]

Dug up this old thread;

I posted a thread a little while back , seems i was losing a bit of coolant. I have found out that it's the waterpump leaking. This one was renewed with the cambelt-service and now 5k further it leaks.

Should i go back for some kind of warranty / get it repaired at no costs you think ? It was done by a Renault specialist.

 

[franx]

?

 

[sideways danny]

was probably a non genuine pump. I've found that many many times, if you replace a gen part that's not faulty with a new copy, you'll likely have issues. I built an engine a few years ago, new everything. The plastic impellar fell off the water pump after 400 miles

 

[franx]

^^ will be going back to see what deal can be made .