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When the water pump fails, I thought that just meant that the water stopped circulating and it rapidly overheated. I figured that if my Porsche waterpump failed, I'd immediately shut down the engine to prevent overheating and just have it flatbedded back to the mechanic for a new pump. That was my Dad's experience with his old Buick and it was not really that big a deal. I would never run the car with a broken waterpump, I'm not so stupid to let it get overheated. However, it sounds from your post that WP failure alone in my Cayman would result in catastrophic damage to the engine aside from overheating ("When I determined my 02 Boxster's water pump was noisy I elected to not even drive the car the 20 miles or so to the nearest Porsche dealer but instead have it flat bedded there, simply to avoid the water pump suffering some mechanical failure that could result in more serious damage to the engine." ). I'm not understanding how the WP failure could cause serious damage to the engine aside from running it while overheated. Sorry if this seems like a stupid question but please bear with me. Can you elaborate on this? What happens? Can the WP disintegrate and spray parts into the engine?

When the water pump fails, I thought that just meant that the water stopped circulating and it rapidly overheated. I figured that if my Porsche waterpump failed, I'd immediately shut down the engine to prevent overheating and just have it flatbedded back to the mechanic for a new pump. That was my Dad's experience with his old Buick and it was not really that big a deal. I would never run the car with a broken waterpump, I'm not so stupid to let it get overheated. However, it sounds from your post that WP failure alone in my Cayman would result in catastrophic damage to the engine aside from overheating ("When I determined my 02 Boxster's water pump was noisy I elected to not even drive the car the 20 miles or so to the nearest Porsche dealer but instead have it flat bedded there, simply to avoid the water pump suffering some mechanical failure that could result in more serious damage to the engine."). I'm not understanding how the WP failure could cause serious damage to the engine aside from running it while overheated. Sorry if this seems like a stupid question but please bear with me. Can you elaborate on this? What happens? Can the WP disintegrate and spray parts into the engine?