Heads up on an area to check

[Bora]

Tuesday the temp gauge warning flashed and beeped but the temp was fine so stop at first garage and the water in the expansion bottle had dropped.

Water below rad so thats the fault, no biggy and its being sorted tomorrow with a new rad funnily enough (core leaking, no damage - corrosion).

Any way because I've been having me head under the bonnet regularly you get to have a look around and I have found something you all may wish to check.

At the front of the bay there is an aircon pipe which comes from the washer bottle area, 90degree bend up towards the bonnet and then it is looped back down in to the bay.

On the loop it is very close to where the bonnet release wire runs and a few electrical wires which are protected. Now on mine the loop has been rubbing against this protection and worn a nice groove in the pipe and it is down to the inner nylon core so I don'tthink long before it splits!!!!!

Will have it looked at tomorrow when its in and try and get it replaced...

 

[FAST AL]

No such problem with mine.Thanks anyway.Another pipe on the right of the engine bay looks really close too but it's not rubbing on anything either.Checked the oil and water while I was at it.Water level's fine but oil is half way down the dipstick so needed topping up so cheers for that.

 

[alex1]

Chaffing pipework

Thanks for the heads up on this. Just checked mine (its on 07 Altea, but only done 11k) and the aircon pipe as described is chaffing through.

You have to have a feel around the pipe to notice it, but on mine the groves from the plastic protector on the cable have cut perfect grooves through the aircon pipe. It is not to the nylon, but non the less it has cut in quite deeply.

I'm thinking of putting some plastic protector around the aircon pipe to stop it doing it any more. Not sure whether to get it sorted under warrenty, as often it results in more faults being created.

Do you know if the aircon pipe runs at various temps, eg. +50 - -20 degres C? Only reason for asking is so that I can put the right protector sleeve over. I don't want the protector sleeve to melt

Cheers and thanks for the early warning.

Regards
Al

 

[steve01]

Good call just checked mine and it had started to mark the pipe