Anyone changed their own pump and belt on this engine. Cant be that hard to do if dealers are doing them in 2.5 hours. Mines just started playing up on a 2013 vrs that i service myself so ive got no hope of a discount. Timing tools are not that expensive for this engine i dont think??

Or would it be possible to disconnect the wire to pump in open position and just leave it. Provided it doesnt put the MIL  light on?

Replaced the pump today. You can clearly see in the photo the old and new pump. The steel ring around the impeller is jammed shut

Look's like I have just become a victim of this know fault! I'll be contacting Specialist cars Aberdeen to see what they can do for me? in the way of covering costs, car is out of warranty by nearly 6 mouths and 59K any advice on this will be very helpful?

 

cheers

 

Keith.

If you've been Skoda Serviced though out your warranty, you should get some contribution. Mine was a couple of months out of warranty, and I think I paid like 50% of the cost.

50% of the labour cost for a car about due a new cambelt (done at the same time)  would sound like a good deal to me.

Irish owner here.

Car was 6 months and 40,000 kms out of warranty when I got the water pump replaced today.

The garage offered 30%-50% discount on parts/labour for a water pump and timing belt change which I thought was reasonable so I didn't push for more.

 

Our pump started giving trouble in Greece where I first found this thread.

At that point, stopping the car and turning it off was enough to reset the pump.

By the time we were coming through Croatia however, restarting wasn't enough and we'd have to run the fan on 4-6 + hot for up to 30 mins to keep it out of the red before it reset.

The worst we had was across Northern Italy with fan on 6, heating 3/4, windows open for 90 minutes in 34C before it fixed itself.

But we were always able to keep it out of the red and continue driving at normal speed with just the fan to control temp.

One advantage of having driven an 83 Fiesta and Yugos

 

Looks like I have now become the victim.  Coolant levels are fine, oil is fine, but pootling along to work and the dash throws up a 'Stop' message about temperature.  I slowed down, turned the air con off and the temperature returned to normal.  Got back up to speed and everything was OK for the rest of the 35 mile commute.

 

Getting in touch with local Skoda dealer already to see what they say

I had the water pump problem.  Mine is 4 years old at 47000 miles.  Dealer said they couldn't get goodwill and said I should speak to Skoda customer services to escalate.  They said there was no more skoda could do and that the water pump would have been due to be replaced soon anyway.  Not sure this is right?  Any advice how to take this further? 

Bought a Skoda Octavia elegance 2.0L TDI 2015 estate about 3 months ago and on the first week I got the heating problem. It would heat so much that it would hit the red and then within 10 second go back to normal. It would happened 2 or 3 times a week at the start of the journey. After searching the INTERNET I came across this site. I went ahead and changed the water pump and timing belt. It's been about 2 months now and I have really pushed the car to the max and not once has it overheated. I did not bother wasting any time asking the main dealer for any money, even though its the water pump that was faulty.

Just had this myself a couple of times on my 64 reg 2.0tdi, booked in with the dealer for next Wednesday.

I mentioned that it was a known issue and the number listed earlier in this thread, and asked about goodwill, they have said they can't comment on what the goodwill contribution will be until they log it on the system on the day.

I will update when I know more.

Just reading over this thread as I think my car is currently suffering from the same issue. the car is booked in at a local specialist but wondering if I should try a Skoda garage instead, for some discount.

 

Bought my 2014 VRS second hand not from a main dealer a year ago, but the car has full Skoda history coming up to 90000 miles, current issue is that the car does overheat but never into the red and doesn't show a warning to stop driving, just a warning its limiting me to 4k Revs and 2 lights on dashboard and also there is no power in the car takes a while to get to 30mph. have plugged in the OBD11 and got an error about flow sensor.

That’s different symptoms to the water pump, and on a four year old car with high mileage bought from outside the dealer network you’ve got no chance of a discount. 

Cheers to the reply, I will leave it with the local specialist to look into.

I'm now part of the club!
Booked in with Skoda, but they can't see me until 05/11.

 

64 plate 1.6 with 46k on the clock, owned since new.

Had one major service done outside of Skoda network.

 

What's the current consensus on solution?
Go to Skoda, hope they have some goodwill and gamble the diagnostic fee?

-or-

Go to my mechanic and get the cambelt sorted while he's there, as it's due in 9 months anyway?

On ‎22‎/‎08‎/‎2018 at 06:53, gadget555 said:

Look's like I have just become a victim of this know fault! I'll be contacting Specialist cars Aberdeen to see what they can do for me? in the way of covering costs, car is out of warranty by nearly 6 mouths and 59K any advice on this will be very helpful?

cheers

Keith.

 

As others have said, if you have a Skoda service history they are usually offering 50% contribution towards the replacement even for cars out of warranty.

My car was a similar age/mileage to yours & I received the 50% contribution. (paying the equivelant of ~300gbp)

Booked it in at any local garage that's any good. I changed mine myself and even with buying a really good quality timing set and genuine skoda parts I save a load of dosh. Quite simple to do if your mechanical minded. Aurodata has simple instructions on how to do it as well

Skoda did pay the 50%, but because of holding out for that it took 3 days from dropping it off to collecting it, various excuses ranging from no-one at the dealership knew how to contact Skoda UK for the goodwill (between holiday and sickness) and allegedly Skoda UKs computer system going down last Thursday.

 

£489 for me, going in on Monday, pump and Cam etc.

No contribution from Skoda, as it's out of Warranty with a service and MOT done outside of the Skoda network.

Annoying, but I'm telling myself that the work I had done outside of Skoda saved me more than the £200 I'd be saving now and the Cam belt would have needed doing in 9 months anyway.

 

 

Looks like I'm the newest member of the club! 2014 TDI vrs with 45500 miles. Typical that it would happen 3 weeks after my first non-Skoda dealer service (owing to the dealer being too far away from where I moved to). The garage already tried replacing the termostat, quoted me £187, then called back to say it hadn't fixed it and now on to replacing the pump and cam belt while they're at it. I hate to think how much it's going to cost all in!

I have a VW technician in Canada who I was talking to about this issue. Never heard of it done one or even seen the pump design when I sent him those photos I posted on here. Said must be a reason for designing it in but over engineered. Must be a European thing.

I have noticed though with this current cold weather the engine doesn't seem toheat up any quicker with its new pump unlike in the summer mornings. 

Started for my 2015 TDI vRS 2 days ago, engine over heating !!, went today to check the codes and p16c600 heater support pump-dry came up, i guess this is the Water pump ?

ill not bother with the dealer, my car is only driven 80k kms but it is already 4 years old.

Did Skoda start fitting a modified pump at some point? a rough date would be useful, my car was registered March 2016

1 hour ago, Greenie58 said:

Did Skoda start fitting a modified pump at some point? a rough date would be useful, my car was registered March 2016

Few pages back someone said January 2015, but mine is from May and still have the problem? Ill report back with the version that is inside the car next week.

26 minutes ago, EagleRocky said:

Few pages back someone said January 2015, but mine is from May and still have the problem? Ill report back with the version that is inside the car next week.

Thanks 👍