Confirmed with the warranty company that the water pump is covered under my level of policy.
However, my policy wasn't set up by the car's supplying dealer when I bought it (2 months ago), so they had no record on their system. I've called the dealer and they've now (allegedly) done so, however the policy won't be created fully in the system for at least 24 hours (possibly up to 4 days), so they can't authorise the repair officially, and can't pay directly. So I've go to cough up and send them the invoice for repayment to me.
I'm sure the Royal Mail would have done it faster than whatever crappy computer system they have over there. Big raspberry to the car dealer, and big raspberry to the warranty company. It's taken me two hours on the phone to various people to get to this stage. Technology to save us time and effort, my backside.
This is a strange echo of what happened when I bought a Mazda 6 a few years ago. Found out the water pump was weeping a few weeks after purchase and had a massive barney with that warranty company over it - they wouldn't pay out as the fault was found too soon after purchase and they deemed it "pre-existing". Which I thought was the point of a warranty, to cover a product against it being faulty when you buy it. Anyway. The supplying dealer fixed it FOC on that occasion.
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