Seems that lately alot of 05 owners are blowing the freeze plug out and the water pumps are failing.I myself had this happen 2 times already and dont know if it will happen again. Ive been trying to ask the service manager why this is happening so much and it seems its only the 05's. I had a friend call me yesterday saying his friend has an 05 and the same freeze plug came out, he had a upgraded fmic and a mbc that is all. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening so much? Assembly from the factory? Not installed correctly?? Please state your opinions and vote if this has happened to you!

 

Bump!!

 

we haven't had any freeze plug problems with our '05, but we did have a waterpump failure. which we found is a factory recall on the '05.

check with your dealer for replacement

 

I had my freeze plug and wp replaced twice already!!

 

Common ppl post!! I know theres been a few of you that this has happened to

 

how many miles on your 05? because i have close to 13,000 miles on mine and still not a problem. car has not acted up on me once. except for when i installed injen intake intercooler piping. other then that been good all of last year.

 

no issues on my '03 or '05. u must have bought a Friday car...

 

Never, no issues what so ever.

 

Over 20k miles no problems yet.

 

Im almost at 40k, no problems even from my spririted driving. Still on stock clutch too with all this power!

 

Nothing for me at 11k so far

 

never heard of that, i know the water pump is a TSB or recall on 05's.

 

None as of yet...only have 1800 miles on the clock since september though.

 

thankfully, i so far have not.

i have had my car since august and it's got just over 7k on the odometer.

 

35K miles and not a single problem anywhere. Still on stock clutch also.