Driving home from work last night, felt a juddering in the engine and a sound akin to air pockets, within 5 seconds steam and a huge amount of water under the bonnet. Killed the engine straight away after glancing at engine temp dial (needle was in the middle so didn't overheat), managed to pull over in a lane off the main road, lifted the bonnet, water pump was hanging off!!

Called the AA, who couldn't tow me because the vehicle was too heavy so called for a lorry with low load platform. Towed to nearby LandRover independent. Got home quite late but needless to say, ****** off.

Wow, that sounds very unusual. Did the belt look like it had snapped? I wonder if that somehow managed to loop around it and it became yanked so causing the pump to be ripped apart. Or is anything foreign in the engine compartment. - I mean foreign objects, not the Bmw engine. did the fan blade survive, or is it missing a blade?

The belt had not snapped. Nothing foreign was in there, I inspect it weekly. The fan blade was okay. Just annoying. What sort of mileage do these pumps serve? Mine is 105,500 and I'm guessing the original.

Mine seized at 125,000... Pete
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The BMW engines have had an era of issues with water pumps and yours is from that era. Sounds like no additional damage so quite lucky that way even though you did break down. Now you can get the upgraded waterpump that will probably outlast the FFRR  MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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yeah ... new water pump fitted by a land rover independent. Can't tell if it's upgraded or not (didn't really pay any attention to the one that was on) but it works so that's the main thing. Had some belts changed also while they had it apart.

Mine packed up a couple of weeks back at 45000 miles. 2010MY 5.0S/C, not impressed!  SDV8 AB MY 2019
SDV8 VSE MY 2015 - Gone
5.0 S/C AB MY 2010 - Gone
4.2 S/C VSE MY 2006 - Gone

I'll cheer up all up............

It doesn't just happen to Range Rovers...................

A few years ago I was going home from Leeds Castle (no where near Leeds) having attended a breakdown of a mobile toilet block, at 00:30 Sunday morning, bank holiday weekend...... As I got to the top of that really long climb up the M20, my Toyota Landcruiser exploded in a cloud of steam Pulled over and lifted the bonnet to find that the water pump had given way and sent the fan through the rad
I then sat there for 3 hours until the AA recovered me home, go back to MK around 6 a.m.  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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Make sure they fitted a HELLAS one. I have been through 2 first line in 3 yrs. Hellas is OEM.

miggit wrote:

I'll cheer up all up............

It doesn't just happen to Range Rovers...................

A few years ago I was going home from Leeds Castle (no where near Leeds) having attended a breakdown of a mobile toilet block, at 00:30 Sunday morning, bank holiday weekend...... As I got to the top of that really long climb up the M20, my Toyota Landcruiser exploded in a cloud of steam Pulled over and lifted the bonnet to find that the water pump had given way and sent the fan through the rad
I then sat there for 3 hours until the AA recovered me home, go back to MK around 6 a.m.

Good to know it's not just FFRR's that fail miserably sometimes! Mine was on the way back from Sainsbury's, all of a sudden I had gearbox failure, adaptive dynamics fault, battery low, transmission failure and all manner of other failure warnings coming up on the TFT. No low coolant warning . Then the TFT went completey blank whilst I was driving and the indicators stopped working. Crawled home slowly keeping a really close eye on the temp gauge. The electrics eventually re-booted, but I had belts squealing as the water that had ed out caused them to slip. A couple of hours after getting home, topped the system up with about 2.5 litres of coolant, so about half was dumped on the road. The joy of Range Rover ownership That said, my breakdown Company supplied me with a Seat Ibiza as a loan car...... me, after a week with that, getting the FF back was Heaven  SDV8 AB MY 2019
SDV8 VSE MY 2015 - Gone
5.0 S/C AB MY 2010 - Gone
4.2 S/C VSE MY 2006 - Gone