Hoping someone on here may be able to help. In need of a replacement coolant hose for the Fabia.

It’s a 2001 1.4mpi, the part number is 6Y0819373C.

I’ve added a couple of pictures showing the location of the pipe. Comes out of the bulkhead (back of heater?) and drops down behind the engine block. Mechanic had a bit of a mare getting to it at the bottom.

https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/fabia/fab/2000-225/1/121-121020/

Unfortunately Skoda UK customer services say it’s “obsolete” and have simply referred me to the Skoda museum [email protected]

and their technical assisstance website https://erwin.skoda-auto.cz/ Waiting to hear back from both of them.

In the meantime, I’ve sent Pirtek an enquiry to see if they can help but suspect they’ll want the tech spec, which I’ve tried getting out of Skoda UK but so far without success.

Any help from anyone on here gratefully appreciated. Seems a shame if it means the end of the car simply down to a £20 bit of hose

Many thanks.

 

If it's only damaged in one place then you can simply buy a new piece of straight hose and use a coupler to connect them once once you've cut the damaged section out, it's only the heater hose so it's not critical to engine cooling.

3 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

If it's only damaged in one place then you can simply buy a new piece of straight hose and use a coupler to connect them once once you've cut the damaged section out, it's only the heater hose so it's not critical to engine cooling.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, sounds like a plan. I'll mention it to the mechanic.

The pipe you have marked on the parts diagram is the one going off to the left of the engine but the one you've marked on your photo is the one going to the right. That one is 6Y0 819 371

 

Unless the circle is just to show where both pipes are?

Edited 26 April, 20197 yr by TMB

The circle appears to be where the gear linkage cables exit the bulkhead so I think it's an error.

No, the gear cables are just below. The pipes just above those with the grey spring hose clamps are the heater pipes.

 

 Fabia Mk I parts now considered "obsolete" by Skoda?!

Apologies on photo, probably down to my rather poor photo editing skills.

 

The mechanic spoke with TPS and that's where we got the part number from. It is the part in the photo with the silver covering. Google 6Y0 819 371 and that shows a black pipe so it's not that one.

 

As for "obsolete" indeed they do...here's the wording from their first email:

 

Dear....

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding purchasing a replacement coolant hose for the above vehicle. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my response.

I have discussed your query with our Parts Support Team, and they have advised that the part number you provided 6Y0 819 373 C is now obsolete. I am sincerely sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

However, it may be worth contacting third party suppliers who may potentially have one in stock. Whilst we appreciate this would not be supplied by ŠKODA UK, we are unable to provide a different outcome on this occasion.

I hope this information proves useful. If we can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us on the number below.

Thank you for contacting ŠKODA UK.

Kind regards

Rather annoyingly when you send them an email you get the auto-response back that says "Your satisfaction is very important to us ".....well Skoda I'm currently not particularly satisfied....

 

I thought I'd managed to find one online from this lot https://sparesbb.com/ BUT be warned this is apparently a fake website specialising in hard to get/obsolete parts. They have a Contact page suggesting they are based in Kent. I Googled the company and got phone number and the guy I spoke with said it was nothing to do with them. I suggested they may want to but a warning on their own website about SparesBB.

 

Waiting to hear back from both Skoda in Czech and Pirtek.

It's a shame you didn't ask a day earlier about this, as I happened to be in a scrapyard where there was an MPI the day before, and I could've harvested one for you.  Is there not a scrappie near you?

 

You may find that the convoluted alloy heatshield simply slides over the rubber hose, so you could transfer it onto the replacement part.  Depending on the bend radii, you could just buy a length of 3/4"/20mm heater hose from a motor factors and use that (slid up through the heatshield if poss.)? 

 

Edited 29 April, 20197 yr by Wino

2 hours ago, Wino said:

It's a shame you didn't ask a day earlier about this, as I happened to be in a scrapyard where there was an MPI the day before, and I could've harvested one for you.  Is there not a scrappie near you?

 

You may find that the convoluted alloy heatshield simply slides over the rubber hose, so you could transfer it onto the replacement part.  Depending on the bend radii, you could just buy a length of 3/4"/20mm heater hose from a motor factors and use that (slid up through the heatshield if poss.)? 

 

 

Thanks Wino, I do recall the mechanic had a bit of a mare trying to disconnect the pipe in the first place so thought I'd try the new pipe route first....starting to wish I hadn't bothered :-(

 

The pipe is now 18 years old so my thinking was that one from a scrappy could go the same way so best off with a new pipe....thank you Skoda for an "obsolete" part....

 

Latest response from Skoda UK

 

I apologise for any disappointment regarding my previous correspondence. However, I have discussed your query again with our Parts Support Team and unfortunately, we do not have any technical information regarding coolant pipe that you require. The only information available is the part number and the price if available to purchase. I apologise again that I am unable to assist any further with your query.

So Skoda UK don't give a monkey's about an 18 year old Fabia is the message I'm getting from them.....

Live in hope that Skoda museum may be better...failing that it may well be scrappy route....where abouts was the one you saw?

 

 

Bicester.  Was looking at seats though, so didn't even glance under the bonnet to see what was left if anything. Must be loads in scrappies around the country though.

 

Remote hose clip pliers are an absolute godsend for this type of thing.  They seem to vary in price from just over a tenner, to a mad £50, pretty sure mine were somewhere around 30-35, but they make every job with spring band clamps so much easier.

 

I'd probably go down the route of threading a new bit of 'straight' heater hose up the old heatshield. See how loose the convoluted heatshield is on the rubber hose, to get an idea if it'll come off easily, then measure the OD of the rubber hose. See if your local parts shop has something the right sort of size.  I dare say you could buy a length of convoluted ali hose that was a looser fit if the transplant route looks tricky.

Edited 29 April, 20197 yr by Wino

2 hours ago, AbFab said:

It is the part in the photo with the silver covering

There's another one next to the one with the red circle, I suspect that too has the silver covering. You can see the spring band clamp on the other one, just on your circle's circumference.

 

What @TMB is saying is that the one you've circled is part number 6Y0 819 371 (item 29 in the parts diagram you posted). The one next to it,  mostly obscured by the foreground pipe in your photo, is the ...373C one (item 30 in the parts diagram). FWIW.

 

What happened to the one on the car?

Ah, wait a sec!  The 'foreground hose' I just mentioned is the one going down to the other heater fitting, so they cross over on your car, rather than go as per what the parts diagram shows.

 

I wonder which is right? Not that it probably matters much.

Edited 29 April, 20197 yr by Wino

Old age I think. The mechanic traced the leak to the bottom end of the pipe, tried getting new pipe via TPS without success hence we're at where we are.

 

 

It would be madness to scrap the car over a heater pipe. It might even be the O-ring joint at the heater matrix barbs that is leaking and running along the pipe. In any case, something could easily be rigged up using straight heater pipe. In the past I have used 15mm copper plumbing pipe to make any bends in the pipe that were too severe for the rubber pipe. Just join it to the rubber pipe with hose clamps.

 

You can even buy flexible 15mm pipe...

 

Edited 30 April, 20197 yr by TMB

I've just had similar at a Skoda dealer with two other hoses. They're not unusable on my car, just oil contaminated due to loss of oil cap on the past. I wanted to see if I could get replacements. My guess is Skoda automatically phase out parts after about 14 years, and are therefore no longer producing AQW specific parts.