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From: eric@chronon.UUCP (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Toyota water pump inquiry
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 14:37:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 14:37:09 1986
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>Have any Toyota owners out there had water pump problems?
>I have heard through the grapevine that Toyotas are known
>to have the water pump go out (or just its bearings, perhaps)
>at or around 50k miles.
>
>Any others that have heard/experienced this?
>
>[ I have an '82 Toyota Corolla SR5 Liftback that is only at 21k
>  and is grumbling up front in the water pump area ].
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Scott W. Collins
>ihnp4!cbsck!swc

The water pump on my '78 Corolla SR5 Liftback needed replacing
after only 125,000 miles.  Fortunately I was spared the task
by the other four cars that all wanted to get to know each other
(and mine) *intimately* :-)

Too bad, that car was the best I've ever owned, no maintenance
problems (but I took good care of it, esp. including changing the
oil AND filter every 3K miles or so, c.f. other recent articles),
and after 125K miles it ran and looked like a car with 20K or so miles.
I now drive a Tercel 4WD wagon, with 85K on it after 2-1/2 years
(well, I live in CA where distances are qualitatively different!).

To answer your question, I have not heard anything that would lead
me to believe this is a generic or common problem with Toyotas.
-- 
Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"
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