Many will be aware there is an issue with earlier Mk3 Octavia TDI water pumps failing earlier than can reasonably be expected. As far as I am aware, it's mostly 2.0 TDI's, but stand to be corrected.   As there are already multiple threads on here about the issue, (and even though mine is a later car and hopefully not affected), I thought I'd start another    (@john999boy if you think this is worth a sticky, it may avoid lots more duplicate threads?)   The purpose of this thre