Water pump failure

I got a water leak from the engine yesterday, after removing the PAS pump to see where it was coming from I had a look and it turns out to be the water pump internal seal that has gone, the water is running out of the little hole on the bottom of the pump body, then I got to thinking about when I put that pump on, it was only the end of July, http://www.micra.org.uk/showthread.php?t=17415&highlight=water+pump , surely thats a manufacturing fault to fail after only 8 months, hopefully I should be able to get a free replacement from the parts supplier I got it from as it's less than a year old.
 
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