water puimp dying ?

[cawsey18]

Hi there alittle concerned. was driving to drop someone off last night and it was tipping down with rain and i had the heater on to clear the windscreen. i put me foot down a little on a dual carriageway, and i noticed the temp starting to go up from its normal 90 to nearly 120 !. so i backed right of and it started going down. :S this has never happend before.

i then went out this morning to try and replicate to see what conditions where making it like this . and yes it did it again.. you can give it a quick blast with your foot and it seems ok but sustain the power and it kreeps up :S:S .. please help cheers

 

[cawsey18]

o and also drive around normally low revs high gears its absoloutly fine :S

 

[HallycupraR]

Mine did the same put the engine under any load an the emp gauge wud start to rise everytime i stopped 20sec laer it would stay at 90, Mine did turn out to the be the water pump so had cambely done at the same time, I would suspect that yours is the water pump

 

[CupraMVR]

Yea sounds like the pump is come off the drive. the plastics comes away on the pump and at low revs it can still spin fine then with a bit more throttle it just slips and stops pumping the water round making it over heat.

When was the cambelt and pump changed if ever ?

 

[flak monkey]

Yep common thing on the VAG engines, waterpump should always be changed with the cambelt. The impellor has a nasty habit of seperating from the pump shaft....

Get it changed before it disintegrates, otherwise its a biiig job!

 

[HallycupraR]

dont forget the uprated Metal Propeller one

 

[cawsey18]

yer yer .. i dont think it has been changed cars only on 35k . doesnt show in the history so im guessing it hasntt. ok i will get that booked in this week, thank god i have just bought a mk2 gti to play about with can use this for abit

 

[flak monkey]

dont forget the uprated Metal Propeller one

Good point. How old is the car?

 

[FRESHMODE]

def water pump matey, i had same issue