Has anyone had their Water Pump replaced?

[YAR1S]

I changed mine at about 90k miles. Mine's bearings had gone bad... it sounded AWFUL.
It started sounding weird for a bit, no signs of leaking... I knew it was coming from the belt area but didnt get it checked out before going on a 14 hour round trip and by the time I got back my engine started to sound like a dirty diesel. I took it to toyota dealership and they said it was the waterpump had gone bad. They took it out and found out it was just the bearing(s) and told me since the labor was already high to just replace it and the serp. belt. pretty expensive fix but its much better now.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by YAR1S

I changed mine at about 90k miles. Mine's bearings had gone bad... it sounded AWFUL.
It started sounding weird for a bit, no signs of leaking... I knew it was coming from the belt area but didnt get it checked out before going on a 14 hour round trip and by the time I got back my engine started to sound like a dirty diesel. I took it to toyota dealership and they said it was the waterpump had gone bad. They took it out and found out it was just the bearing(s) and told me since the labor was already high to just replace it and the serp. belt. pretty expensive fix but its much better now.

Hmmmm.

No leak just noise.

Now that the car is out of warranty (or will be in a couple years) Im wondering if I get a little leak to just run it and not fix it since Ill have to pay.

But what happened to yours had to be fixed...

[Twistoffate0817]

2009 Yaris here...

Mine broke with about 20,000 miles on it.(Water pump) Toyota replaced it for free.

[Astroman]

Please try to post your threads in the correct thread section. It's getting old moving all the stuff from the "general discussion" when this was service related. I've moved it to the proper sections