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Ford Focus 1.6 Petrol Water Pump Problem ***HELP***?

Hoping that someone may read this.Broke down yesterday after re-filling coolant when car re-heated and mechanic who rescued us advised that the water pump is leaking and requires replacement.Our local garage have advised that to change the water pump also requires a new camber (?) kit and including both and 3.5 hours labour their total quote is ?315.08.This sounds crazy for changing a water pump - can anyone shed any light and reckon that they may be taking the mickey?Am not technical so wouldn't attempt to do work myself, however if we go back to garage, or to others, I'd like to know exactly what work needs doing.Thanks!

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well you will need a new pump, but im wondering why they are advising you to get a camber kit. camber kits are for the slant of how your wheels touch the ground i.e When the bottom of the tire is more inwards and the top is out, that is referred to as positive camber. Positive camber wears the outside of the tires at a rapid rate. Positive camber is generally the result of a bad alignment or wearing ball joint. A camber kit is not usually required for this because replacing the faulty part and realignment generally pulls everything into spec. One time a camber kit will be needed for positive camber is when the vehicles ride height is raised. When it is raised, it puts stress on the top ball joint because the wheels lifting motion conflicts with the ball joint position therefore pushing it to the side. With an adjustable camber kit, this is corrected by sliding the ball joint back inwards, towards the motor, to bring the wheel back into spec. they will of needed to look underneath your car to diagnose the problem. but i would take it to another garage to get them to diagnose the problem. i hope this helps man.
I've had 2 Mondeo 1.8s, both water pumps have failed. The fact is, they're cheap, crap cars it's Russian roulette as to when they'll fail. My first went at around 90,000 miles, but the car was second hand I don't know if it had been changed before, the second one failed at 60,000 with a full history. There's no warning, they just go - no leaking, just temperature off the gauge engine cuts out.
Make sure that they are using ONLY genuine Ford parts and Ford genuine coolant. Anything else is a BIG rip-off. Ford has an exchange program for the pump. THe belt MUST be new, and the coolant from ford will protect for 100,000 miles since it was DESIGNED for YOUR PARTICULAR CAR!!! Don't believe in universal coolants! That is a LIE!!! I have seen many holes in cylinder heads from bad advice and bad coolant. Don't kid yourself. It is pretty much normal to replace the cambelt with the pump, since the pump is part of the tensioning mechanism for the belt. Good LucK!!
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When the necessary water-pump is replaced 90% of the parts will be removed anyway to access replacement of the timing belt. In other words, the mechanic will have already removed the water-pump and just a few more parts will need to be removed to change the timing belt. If you haven't had the timing belt changed in the past 50,000 -75,000 KM it's wise to have it done now rather than later when the water-pump will have to be removed to change only the belt. If the belt happens to break somewhere down the road it *could raise hell with the valve train and pistons costing more pounds and kilos of money to repair. I only offer this advice as a wise preventative maintenance measure!

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