Hi, i've just purchased a 2006 Fabia 1.2 12V (Engine code: BME) and i am about to service it (just waiting for a couple bits to arrive). I have been watching and reading tutorials on servicing the motor, seems simple. However one thing i have noticed whilst comparing with the tutorials is there are a couple hoses on the engine cover that are not present on mine but are on the videos/images seen (see attached pictures). I can't seem to see any dangling hoses anywhere. Can anyone advise me if this is an issue or is everything in order and it should be like this for this engine?

 

Thanks in advance

Is there a narrow diameter hose coming off the same side, further back, going to the rocker cover?

Early BMEs had EGR valves, I doubt yours has, so that would explain at least one empty spigot.

15 minutes ago, Wino said:

Is there a narrow diameter hose coming off the same side, further back, going to the rocker cover?

Early BMEs had EGR valves, I doubt yours has, so that would explain at least one empty spigot.

 

Yes, the hose further back is present and connected.

 

Ah, okay. So, the hoses missing from these spigots are nothing to be worried about?

Not sure why there are two there. On our AZQ - with EGR valve - there's only a single one there.

Not a concern.

 

Something definitely worth checking while you're servicing it is the brake servo vacuum hose. Follow it back from the servo to the inlet manifold, carefully feeling for splits at all the junctions of the two sections of rigid plastic hose. It seems to be an almost inevitable failure to some degree or other. Found one virtually parted on an '02 Golf last weekend. They seem to split on the side facing the ground first, just to make it harder to spot...

Maybe a stupid suggestion, but why not try to see if either of these stubs are open or closed off at their inner ends, it might just be a common moulding section and if not relevant to your model, the inner ends will be closed I'd think.

 

Edit:- these barb fittings for vac pipes have been a bug bear for VW Group car owners for many years, leading at one point to a recall and a change to that later type of pipe - and yet still more problems at the brab fittings, I'll need to look at daughter's late 2009 Ibiza and my wife's 2015 Polo to see if and how they have engineered that problem out.

Edited 23 March, 20197 yr by rum4mo

The servo pipes splitting is very odd. I've had a lot of different car makes with exactly the same type of servo pipes and never had one split. Why only VAG? Strange indeed.

I appreciate the help from everyone! And thanks for heads up about the servo pipes, i will definitely have a check.