Hi,

 

I've just snapped one of the plastic retaining clips on the air filter element housing - does anyone know the part number for the housing  (or just for the top part if available separately) ?

 

I'm quite ****ed about this - I was doing it by the book (and not for the 1st time): unhook ducts, pop the housing free, loosen the 2 screws, removing the top by pressing on the clips. When putting it together, this one tab has failed to engage, so I've taken in apart again, carefully pushed the filter element seal into the groove, and as I was feeling around the clip with my finger trying to find why it did not grab, I just felt it snap. Actually it did not separate all the way, so I've put it together and now it holds, but I guess not for long - that thin grey line on the 2nd pic at the top of the tab where it attaches to the housing is the snap - the tab now  moves  back and forth easily if it was hinged, but still has some strenght against downward pull (that's how it is supposed to hold).

It is the one nearest to the dipstick.

I've came to think it must have happened because it was cold outside (2-3C) - I have no other explanation for this.

 

The 1st pic shows the bottom of the filter housing - is that the part number on the top left corner ?

 

thanks,

T.

 

 

I did the same a while back on a MKII Octavia. I drilled 2 small hole in the lid / side panel and managed to secure the lid on with a plastic wire tie.  Job done

@OP yes that is the part number

https://www.vwpartsvortex.com/oem-parts/volkswagen-air-cleaner-assembly-04e129611g

7 hours ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

I did the same a while back on a MKII Octavia. I drilled 2 small hole in the lid / side panel and managed to secure the lid on with a plastic wire tie.  Job done

 

Good point well made.

 

5 hours ago, MoggyTech said:

@OP yes that is the part number

https://www.vwpartsvortex.com/oem-parts/volkswagen-air-cleaner-assembly-04e129611g

 

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

Another example of poor plastics used by vag suppliers coupled with crap design. Brittle when cold, fails with stress (bending). Cheap, not cheerful.

 

Try complaining to Skoda HQ about what is basically a manufacturing defect. (Dont bother with a dealer) Email to factory if stonewalled.

 

Must be plenty of ways to bodge it,

 

cable ties

 

or

 

fashion/fit improvised external metal clip, like the old fashioned way of holding an airbox together, 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=air+box+clips&prmd=sivn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ

 

or

 

cut and form a L shaped thin sheet polycarb bracket and glue/screw it on to reinforce/hold the broken bit

 

or

 

drill small hole + self tapping screw in strategic place....

 

etc etc

 

Its probably a good tight fit even without that one clip, I think the 2 screws underneath pull the top down tight.

 

 

 

 

Edited 10 December, 20178 yr by xman