well yesterday i was crusing the highway with my girlfriend on the way to a movie,
suddenly the "check coolent level" on red alert poped.

went to the side, opened the hood, to my eyes the whole engine is coolent.

noticed a place that the coolent is leaking really bad, well it was a plastic hose to my suprise.

after somehow getting the car to a safe place at my girlfriend parents we managed to get a backup car to the movie.

when we were back, we eventually found this part is easy to install and take off, the problem? this part seems to be a disease in this engine, parts everywhere, aliexpress, local part stores, price? around 80$ for OG vw, 40$ for 3rd company.
the part is made from plastic, and it is a bit shame that THIS part is really vulnerable in the cooling system for this kind of car in its price point.

sharing some files from the incident

Global parts from VW group so it might be interesting how many others have had failures.

I had to look to see you are showing Israel as a location. Maybe weather, ambient temperatures can be relevant.

But then plenty hot locations around the world including South East UK just now.

1 minute ago, Ootohere said:

Global parts from VW group so it might be interesting how many others have had failures.

I had to look to see you are showing Israel as a location. Maybe weather, ambient temperatures can be relevant.

But then plenty hot locations around the world including South East UK just now.

yes it is really hot here and not to mention the car is black.
maybe the constant heat can make this crack pop-off more frequantly but, the engine coolent is at 105C mostly so i find it a bit odd

anyway, i see that i am not the only one who had this if the part is so popular

Edited 29 June, 202529 Jun by LinoTheFox