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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Without any maintenance at all you can keep a Toyota alive, practically.

I once heard from a mechanic of a guy who had driven his tacoma 750k miles without any repair above the complexity of an oil change. When his water pump failed at 3/4ths of a million miles he was complaining about it…

Meanwhile I replaced the water pump in my VW twice in the last 30k miles

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do you think something might be up somewhere else in the engine? My family have had VWs (mostly TDIs) a while and they usually only need a water pump at about 80 or 90k miles. Either that, or you got unlucky like our TSI Polo that needed one at 20k (although nothing else in the 30k+ since).

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