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Yes but ☺️ so our friend must go ASAP to a car-electrician to save his engine from overheating and destruction.

Skoda Service manual for models 08.96> says VW TL 774 C

Those patents we call them here as ''gipsyish'' ,they are sloppy and extremely dangerous. To make the radiator switch to work from the panel independent it's not just 2 cables and a switch. Maybe the previous owner didn't want to buy a new radiator switch and just make the precedure manual which means when the needle of the gauge was rising till 92 'C he was just pushed the switch and let the fan work as much as the driver thought was right. In a citty traffic few seconds are enough to make the car overheated and if the driver looks the other way the temperature will rise at 120 'C and the ''Boom'' will come.

Double filtration? After these 2 filters is enough air coming for sport use (high rmp revving) ? I am on the last details of my problem, when i solve everything then it would be time for the Sprint filter.

You are right, i will stay to 57mm height. I am using Mann oil filter and as for air filter i use a Filtron AP 140 that i had as spare. The weird thing was that it didn't fit perfect when i put it and i had to turn it 180' I have installed the new coolant sesnsor plug, i will post photos from the old one.

Here are the suggestions by Mann for my Felicia. https://catalog.mann-filter.com/EU/eng/catalog/MANN-FILTER Katalog Europa/Vehicles/CARS %2B TRANSPORTERS/SKODA/Felicia/1.3 136 B~M, AMH (T00000000330313)/Air Filter/C 28 136~1 C 28 136/1 with height: 57 and for dusty environments https://catalog.mann-filter.com/EU/eng/catalog/MANN-FILTER Katalog Europa/Vehicles/CARS %2B TRANSPORTERS/SKODA/Felicia/1.3 136 B~M, AMH (T00000000330313)/Air Filter/C 28 136~2 C 28 136/2 with height: 65 The second would have more restricted flow?

The code for the Paper filter is 1L0129620 so he have these options here: https://kritosparts.gr/Code/1L0129620 (the weird is that the last two are very expensive and in the description says ''with pro filter", is this for dusty areas? ) https://www.maxxparts.gr/antallaktika/search?s=1L0129620

If the filter does not fit perfect it's a matter of time to have issues like me, remember my BMC? Tomorrow i will find another piece that i have left behind and i will make a video with pictures. I will try also to find my old MAP to see the dirt although i am not sure if i have wiped the excess from outside. That BMC cause me problems.

I bought my Felicia with G11 and after 22 years i never had any issues with this (mixing antifreeze or adding MoCool etc was my fault) Our motor came from Favorit (G11) and i have seen ''suggestions" even for G13 from some e-stores. 😲

These are 3 screenshots from this video, very informative and i will have these in mind when it's time for the next filter change.

This is an excellent video for Paper filters only.

In the past at the end of the hose i had dirt with some drops of oil, i have seen it with the previous small filter that i had in the end and for few months i had just as an experiment a piece of sponge which became dirty after few months. No everything is clean! Even inside the blue filter there is nothing and this make me very happy. As we spoke before for filters i searched for the Pipercross which are Foam. They need a Kit https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616J2yvb5LL._AC_SX679_.jpg (clean and spray) as the gauze ones so i don't think i will buy one because it's the same process. For educational reasons, i have found another very old video (promotion) with another type of Foam filter. At 4:41 admits that gauze filters flow more than Paper of Foam.

Strange, i have the same manual (in Greek) when i bought my Felicia at 2000, says VW TL 774 C and the same says the Haynes Manual.

Your Felicia manual does not says VW TL 774 C?

The weird thing is that i removed that small filter to clean it. I knew from previous situations that it must be dirty but look what i saw: It's clean like i install it a week before, even at bottom (where the beige colour was from the factory) there isn't any sign of dirt. So what's happening? The yellow hose is from hard plastic and i haven't touch it except 2 times (all these years) which i clean the internal with spay. I return the emissions back to the throttle as the factory has it (bigger hose) since i see no oil-dirt on the filter, i think will help me somehow to solve my problem.

G11: HEPU, Motul, Wurth, Repsol, Valeo, Mannol, Febi, Valvoline Also from an UK store suggestions .

In the first ''forum years" here in GR some guys told us that those emissions make the throttle to get some muck after long term use and must find a way to get rid of them. Thus that filter that i put, before i had a sponge which get dirty but i wonder: those emissions at first minutes won't help my cold start?

I will wait. Meanwhile take a look at this hose, in the end i put a small filter, suppose that hose brings the fumes from the combustion chamber to the throttle but for what reason? Is it really that sometimes brings dirt to the throttles centre plate?

82711: TC-6 installed but i had problem with the fuel sensor and didn't worked properly 83363: New fuel sensor installed 84372: ECU-chip update 84493: Coolant mixture corrections 84777: Iridium spark plugs 84844: Stock air filter box with flap installed Now i am about 84989 but i have faith in my instinct and my service notes, somewhere is a mistake i will find it no matter what! I have some good news from the vapours hose and the new clip from the coolant sensor (both crucial factors in cold start procedure).

12,2 ltr or 23,15 Uk mpg for normal city traffic in 6 'C. This is a (negative) European record, even some guys with 20VT turbo will beat me.

My Felicia from 2003 till winter 2020 had: Ecu-chip, BMC filter, only outside air for cold starts from a wide open hole, exhaust from A to Z at 48mm, stock MAP and Lamba sensor, stock spark plugs, metallic catalytic converter, two bags of tools and fuel consumption from 9,1-9,7 ltr or 31.04-29.12 mpg in city traffic (emission test OK). Suddenly the fuel consumption start to rise so after a phrenitis of 3 years at sping 2023 has: Ecu-chip update, Paper filter and stock flap for better cold starts, stock hole for air entry, exhaust from A to Z reduced at 45mm, new MAP and Lamba sensor, iridium spark plugs, new ceramic catalytic as the stock, one bag of tools but some weight from insulation and fuel consumption of 11,8 ltr or 23.94 mpg in a little bit bigger city traffic (emission test OK). The car then (same type of tyres-suspention as now) had better torque and Hp at medium-high rpm, now has them at low-medium, no check engine light, no error codes. According to logic the car would have much better Mpg but has NOT (tested via TC-6 and will old fashion way), he who will find the solution will take a place in paradise.

Today he have sun ant temperature 6 'C, the fuel consumption for a very normal traffic route House to Work was 11,8 ltr or 23,94 Uk mpg whick is worst than the other days with BMC gauze filter. It's absolutely unbelievable that my car does not like the stock air filter box and the Paper filter. After almost 3 years of searching-bying and installing new parts-checking notes-thinking-spending hundreds of euro plus money fie excess gasolune etc i am getting tired and my nerves are at the maximum level. If i was in NASA looking for a problem in a space mission i would be better than now.

Tenths of Millions of drivers are like me and if i say that turning back to the original air filter design and i got worst fuel consumption on city driving they will think that i am sick. If i would say ''i installed a cold air intake" they would tell me that ''this sucks hot air from hot engine bay etc" and yeah that's acceptable but a factory air box with factory paper filter and a protected 20cm plastic hose made the car running with richer mixture than before with BMC gauze filter, no flap mechanism, wide oped fresh air hole?

I just wrapped the hose between the air filter box till throttle and the piece of hose which is close to manifold, see those small hoses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Škoda_Felicia#/media/File:Skoda_Felicia_1.3mpi_Lump.JPG This was for protection from heat of the engine bay, can this small wrapping affects the cold starts-fuel consumption? How? The modification started at 2003 and till 2020 the fuel consumption at city traffic was very good, now in 2022 i can not blame those modifications and there is no meaning to say again and again why i did them. At Spring of 2022 things suddenly started to get worst about fuel consumption and it insane to put the blame for example on the Ecu-chip or the exhaust manifold wrapping that i did in 2003.

Results from using Stock air filter box (with flap inside), factory hoses (incoming air and air from manifold), Paper filter: 1) the 1st cold start of the day is one click Worst which means with previous combination the needle was going for few seconds at 1100 rpm and the was returning to 800+ rpm, now takes a little bit longer. 2) although the conditions these days in Greece aren't as before few weeks (now we have cold, light snow, lot of traffic from home to work but not so from work to home) the fuel consumption is one click Worst. 3) the second cold start of the day is ''bad'' as the previous, no improvement. 4) I have less noise on idle or light acceleration, very good feeling of torque on low-medium rpm but no test at high rpm because i have no road for test. I paid a lot of money for new air filter box (with the mechanism inside), spend time for installation with hoses etc and what i got?