"pws" > wrote in message
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> Frank Berger wrote:
>>>This also eliminates any decision-making on the water pump, it
>>>automatically gets replaced after 80K miles.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Is that so? I don't recall seeing that mentioned anywhere.
>
> I didn't say it was mentioned anywhere. I am referring to my own personal
> car maintenance, not anything that Mazda or anyone else has published.
>
> Once the front end is torn down enough to replace the timing belt, I am
> automatically going to replace the water pump because I have seen two of
> them fail very soon after a timing belt change.
> The fact that I am going about 25% longer than the "recommended"
> replacement interval, (unless you live in California and have the exact
> same timing belt), makes replacing the water pump a very good idea because
> I have not seen many water pumps make it to 160K miles.
>
> One of them failed at about 75K miles after having the belt done at 60K. A
> new water pump would have saved a lot of money in that case.
>
>

"It automatically get replaced after 80K miles" doesn't exactly tell the
reader all that.