Few years ago I purchased a water pump trying to save a little money I got it off eBay. It barely lasted 3 miles before engine was gone on initial test drive.
Took some investigating, a lot actually, and I wanted to share how important OEM parts really are.
Esp critical engine and electrical parts. 99% of eBay is counterfeit. And the non counterfeit is usually junk. I’ve been lucky twice on there with parts being actual OEM style.
This water pump was a couple tenths to the inch less in width from pulley to base. Not enough to even notice. That small variation caused my belt to shred like it was in an orange peeler except it made fine like shreds similar to hair but not that fine of course you get the picture.
Those shreds got wound up in the harmonic balancer causing them to push thru the seal on it then fed them to the inside on the casing where they got tangled in the timing chain and caused one side to jump timing.
Rendering a no good engine. It’s sat out in the weather for few years and recently got taken apart and I snapped a couple pics to see what non-OEM can do to your car. Learn from others mistakes when you can. But most won’t until it happens to them.
Think twice before hitting that “buy it now” link.
Parts came from OELine out of California from eBay. They changed their name after this incident tho I think. They are well aware of it happening. But they didn’t do shit.
I got more pics I’ll find and post if interested.
Took some investigating, a lot actually, and I wanted to share how important OEM parts really are.
Esp critical engine and electrical parts. 99% of eBay is counterfeit. And the non counterfeit is usually junk. I’ve been lucky twice on there with parts being actual OEM style.
This water pump was a couple tenths to the inch less in width from pulley to base. Not enough to even notice. That small variation caused my belt to shred like it was in an orange peeler except it made fine like shreds similar to hair but not that fine of course you get the picture.
Those shreds got wound up in the harmonic balancer causing them to push thru the seal on it then fed them to the inside on the casing where they got tangled in the timing chain and caused one side to jump timing.
Rendering a no good engine. It’s sat out in the weather for few years and recently got taken apart and I snapped a couple pics to see what non-OEM can do to your car. Learn from others mistakes when you can. But most won’t until it happens to them.
Think twice before hitting that “buy it now” link.
Parts came from OELine out of California from eBay. They changed their name after this incident tho I think. They are well aware of it happening. But they didn’t do shit.
I got more pics I’ll find and post if interested.
