Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Today the windscreen washer pump decided it'd had enough. The bearing growl has stepped up a notch and is sounding very unhappy, so I've fired the parts canon again and ordered a new water pump and washer pump. Can't wait until timing belt time.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Unbelievable!! Me too this week. Has ground to an almost halt. Will work for a few seconds.

Spent this week looking at replacements (Eurospares or Britpart).

I’m puzzling how it seperately does the rear does it run in reverse for that I assume?

I had been adding a bit of bug off and I suspect some clogging.

Mine is dead, dead. Crap, if I'd known I'd have ordered 2!

Clever little device. Yes, it separates the front and rear by running forwards or backwards. I ordered from LRDirect as that was where I was getting the water pump from. They offer Britpart, Allmakes and Landrover. I ordered Allmakes. It was 51c more expensive than Britpart, so I'm probably taking a bit of a chance, but was about 14% of the price of Land Rover.

This one is a job I'm not fussed about doing twice if it turns out to be a poor gamble.

I ended up buying an SKF water pump. Time will tell if I should have paid 100% more for a genuine. Again, not a job I'm worried about doing twice (unlike the block coolant inlet I intend to do at the same time).

I did wonder if I should post a "Hey I'm putting an order in does anyone want to share shipping". Minimum shipping charge from LRDirect is about $50. Estimated shipping for all the timing belt stuff is about $80. That'll probably have to wait until next year though.