Who makes the original Porsche water pumps?

[mountainman]

It has been my experience that anyone who makes a quality product that they can be proud of and stand behind are not ashamed to put their name on it. Would you buy a tire with no name, or a car or anything else. Why a waterpump? I have owned several businesses and have never sold anything with no name on it. I like to know what I am buying and that was the whole point of this post, not to find a cheaper product or another vendor who wants to sell his product. I want to know who made the water pump that Porsche used when they assembled the engine in their factory. Why is that so difficult to understand?

[jsceash]

Here my opinion for what it worth and I'll probably get slammed for it. Porsche will sell you an OE water pump with the same flaw yours has, and then for parts sale, warrant it for 90 days. Auto Zone Napa and others sell you a quality part and warrant it for 10 year half the cost. Most of those are being made the same place your new US car pump is made Mexico, China, and Korea.

[tonycarreon]

Originally Posted by mountainman

It has been my experience that anyone who makes a quality product that they can be proud of and stand behind are not ashamed to put their name on it. Would you buy a tire with no name, or a car or anything else. Why a waterpump? I have owned several businesses and have never sold anything with no name on it. I like to know what I am buying and that was the whole point of this post, not to find a cheaper product or another vendor who wants to sell his product. I want to know who made the water pump that Porsche used when they assembled the engine in their factory. Why is that so difficult to understand?

it's not difficult to understand, but you seem to have difficulty understanding that porsche does not release that information. and i dare say part of the agreement the MFGs have with porsche, is that they do not release the information either. their customer is porsche, not you or i.

there is a name on the part, and that name is porsche.

[mountainman]

Originally Posted by tonycarreon

it's not difficult to understand, but you seem to have difficulty understanding that porsche does not release that information. and i dare say part of the agreement the MFGs have with porsche, is that they do not release the information either. their customer is porsche, not you or i.

there is a name on the part, and that name is porsche.

that might make more sense to me if there were not dozens of other components in a Porsche with the manufcturers name and logo on them. Why is the water pump a secret

[Flavor 987S]

Originally Posted by mountainman

I have owned several businesses

When you owned these businesses, did you tell your current and potential customers where to purchase competitive goods & services?

Sounds silly, right?

But, that's what you want the Porsche parts department to do.

[thom4782]

Porsche, like many businesses, uses private labels for its parts to support the high prices (and margins) charged by dealers. It's simply a business strategy that either works or it doesn't. If the OEM supplier becomes known, then the strategy becomes less successful.

I agree with many posters that buying genuine Porsche parts is appropriate for critical parts where the consequences of a parts failure is especially costly to the owner. My own view is that the water pump is one of those critical parts.

That said, others may have a different risk calculus than me. If they want to take the risk and buy from an OEM part from a source other than Porsche, I see it entirely reasonable for them to ask fellow forum members if they know the name of the water pump OEM.