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With the right maintenance you sure as hell can keep a vehicle alive for a long time. My dad has been keeping a 2001 Toyota van alive for a long time and, as a non automotive inclined or really interested person, I find that impressive.
Without any maintenance at all you can keep a Toyota alive, practically.
I once heard from a mechanic of a guy who had driven his tacoma 750k miles without any repair above the complexity of an oil change. When his water pump failed at 3/4ths of a million miles he was complaining about it…
Meanwhile I replaced the water pump in my VW twice in the last 30k miles
Do you think something might be up somewhere else in the engine? My family have had VWs (mostly TDIs) a while and they usually only need a water pump at about 80 or 90k miles. Either that, or you got unlucky like our TSI Polo that needed one at 20k (although nothing else in the 30k+ since).
JFC, RIP your water pump. My wife's Highlander went 125k miles before needing one. My only complaint was that I had to unmount the engine to get to the bolts.
Sometime it's just depend on whether you can still find the part or not, and sometime the part is badly engineered that when it break, it can't be repaired, and when replacement part can't be found or there's only low quality one in the market, then it's time to let the car die. I still fix car from the early to mid 90s from time to time, they all relies on cheaply-made or used part to survive.