Duralast water pump died less than 20k miles

[Happy Hummer]

Bought my duralast WP on 5/4/19 and died 5/26/23. Less than 20k miles. Yes, lol my H3 is being a little snot this month. Just replaced alternator on 5/24/23 and pulleys on 5/22/23. Then WP puked it's guts out. Ugh! Damn vatozone... Less than 20 k. That sucks .
Oh well, it's replaced under warranty.

You guys have any experiences like this??

 

[EndeavoredH3]

Bought my duralast WP on 5/4/19 and died 5/26/23. Less than 20k miles. Yes, lol my H3 is being a little snot this month. Just replaced alternator on 5/24/23 and pulleys on 5/22/23. Then WP puked it's guts out. Ugh! Damn vatozone... Less than 20 k. That sucks .
Oh well, it's replaced under warranty.

You guys have any experiences like this??

I used to work at autozone as a commercial guy and you didn’t really see too many pumps come through.

I always just ordered ac delco, have had good luck with them.

 

[Happy Hummer]

Yeah I just purchased acdelco gm alternator. But sometimes I'll get duralast simply because of time constraints or warranty.
It's paid on brakes, rad, etc.

 

[Happy Hummer]

One pulley I replaced was gates. That was on the tensioner. It wobbled so badly it melted . Shame on gates for using plastic.
The other pulled was I believe oem. Autozone used to supply dayco products and those were pretty good and quite often made in America.

 

[08H3]

I’ve largely gotten to the point that if an item is not electronic, and does not have any moving parts, store brand or Dorman is OK. Otherwise, I’ve spent enough time over the years pulling out stuff for warranty exchanges that I stick only with GM, Delco, or highly respected brands (Moog, Spicer, Remy, etc). Having a lifetime warranty is great, but I’d rather never use it in the first place.

 

[Happy Hummer]

So turns out the other pulley was Gates also. Found paperwork for it other day. Both had less than 30k miles on them. Gates used to be top notch stuff but not certain that is the case anymore? The pulley seemed unaffected at first but checked it against brand new one and it's bearings were noisy too. So, my changing it as preventative maintenance was probably wise. Tensioner pulley wobbled so bad it moved close to 1/8" deflection ( slop). New one has no deflection.

 

[alrock]

In a time constraint I put an O'Reilly power steering pump on my H3 as at that time there were ZERO pumps in stock at the dealers across the US. The pump lasted 7 days. O'Reilly said you can replace it as many times as you need. I replied that I needed my money back, and we'd only do this once.

 

[Exodus]

i usually get OEM or parts from Napa only , these creatures seem to be finicky about OEM