Long story short ive messed up replacing a pcv breather hose on the vrs and have to wait on the parts coming from flea bay til i can sort it.

Question is. Is the car safe to drive without the breather pipe, a snapped dipstick tube and no dipstick?

Just for a few days until the parts arrive?

Apart from anything else , oil will pour out of the dipstick tube

agreed, your biggest worry is oil loss... i snapped mine, but the dipstick held the tube in place so I thought i was ok.... a litre of oil in 150miles... and no corrosion issues underneath for quite a while.... horrible mess on the drive.

fire risk too when its running under the sump and dripping onto the downpipe.

 

If there is much left of the base of the tube, try remove it and use some fuel hose to extend it - will make a temporary dipstick tube if carefully secured at the top - but don't trust the accuracy of oil level readings!

In a word - yes, providing you create a temporary bodge.

 

I did almost the same to mine, was a day until I could sort replacement parts. I just raided my workshop for bits to bodge in temporarily to stop any leaks - e.g. things like big bolts, offcuts of pipe and jubilee clips etc.

 

It ran fine and got me to work and back until I could replace the parts. But as said above, don't try to drive it WITHOUT attempting a bodge - just leaving them open will give you a world of grief and leaks.

Self amalgamating tape, it's the new gaffer. Could help your temporary bodge.

Well ive been running it to work and back since friday with the breather pipe off. The dipstick tube is held in place but split right through the middle. Getting it in for a full new set of pcv hoses on thursday, still waiting on the dipstick tube arriving however. Ive not noticed any damage through running it like this but time will tell i suppose

If you've got a GSF car parts centre near by, you can get a pattern part dipstick tube for a few quid and when I wanted on it was in stock there and then. Works fine so long as you click it in place well which I didn't do first time and noticed oil leaking out!