Water Pump issue / help

They really only have three failure modes:

Bearing - gets noisy, then belt comes off Seal - leaks Pump to block gasket - leaks

When you say noisy, do you mean sqeaks or grumbles?

I've seen both - a repetetive squeak, and a horrible grinding noise.

Mine seems to squeak a little when cold at idle. When at drving speed, or idling warm it is gone.

Thought it might be the pump, but not sure now.

So does one of mine. On mine it is the water pump. It'll get replaced when it gets *much* worse, or starts leaking.

Cheers. thats what I like to hear. I'll check if there is any noticable play/wobble in the wheel that the belt runs round.

I miss the old Skoda water pump. Driven off the belt, with a little cap that unscrewed and topped up with grease once a year (fill the cap, not the pump, then screw it back onto the pump and it pushes itself into the pump body). Lasted forever they did, unless the coolant was just water inwhich case the impeller just coroded away, but nothing to do with the mechanics of it.