Not had any vws then ?? Its a good practice as oppose to a manufacturers recomendation – pretty su the service interval on my van states waterpump at second cambelt interval.
They use plastic impellors on the waterpump
It was already noisy and done 30k since the belt change/we bought the car, and id ruled out everything on the alternator drive belt earlier this week – thats where the noise was from , i knew the only other thing in that area was the waterpump.
Im pretty prepared for the engine to be toast. Engine was topped up ( once cooled) and driven a further 20 miles to the garage.
Is a hateful woefully underpowered under geared city car anyway.
If it was chg failure as a cause and not effect of another failure ill eat my hat. ( once i put it on of course)
Time to ride now last nights whiskys gone 🙂