I went to pick up my car today from a local garage after it went in to get a new water pump fitted. When i returned home with it i opened the bonnet to see if i could spot the new pump. I looked at the header tank and it was empty!! So my first thought was that the pump had been fitted wrong or something. I looked around a bit more and discovered that they had forgot to replace the bleed screw for the cooling system. Luckily i only live a few miles form the garage.

So i will be calling them first thing in the morning.

Does anyone know if a new waterpump would be visible, or is it concealed somewhere?

waterpump would be at one end of the head i assume.. it is on the ones ive seen before.. should be cleaner than the old one, other than that cant really help lol

i Know where the pump is but i just dont know if mabye it has a casing that they dident replace, because it still looks the same as when it went in.

you could always try asking for th old one to make sure it was changed

Does anyone know if a new waterpump would be visible, or is it concealed somewhere?K series petrol? I think it's quite well hidden under the cam belt & cam belt cover - perhaps visible from underneath.

I'm not 100% on that, but I did dig out a Haynes to check :-) Useless diagrams as normal ;-)

You can tell by looking down the back of teh block, only a small amount is visible but it is possible.