Hi Team,

I know there is a fuel filtre on 1.0 MPI 60CV CHYE but I cannot locate it !! Could you please indicate me if it is in the engine compartment or behind ?

Thanks.

Probably integrated with the fuel pump inside the tank.

Why do you want to know?

No idea on your model but if it's not on the underside of the car at the back, fuel filler cap side, then possibly as put in the tank.

For a 2020 car, looks like last item 3 here, 6C0919051G:

Car Parts Catalog - LLLParts

At 5 years old, unless you've done about 150k miles (~240k km) already, I'd forget about it.

Edited 30 November, 202530 Nov by Breezy_Pete

Its normally under car near rear wheel on passenger side attached to chassis. If its the same as my sons its a round metal unit with pipes to and from. Think its in a plastic bracket.

Alasdair

Hi All, Thanks for your answers. Indeed, I saw on YouTube people with the very same engine, 1.0 MPI / 60 hp / code CHYE, changing it in a VW Up!

On my Fabia, I could not locate it at all.

I bought one from the part catalog because I wanted to change it, as every time I buy a second hand car, I like to give it a deep full maintenance.

If it is integrated in the full pump, I won't dare to access it ...

Opening the fuel tank on a petrol car is quite dangerous, and should only be done if absolutely essential.

You are wise to not dare.

says that it exist, rear right side in front of wheel.

You don't say where you are located, perhaps if you are in the UK VW don't considered an external fuel filter is necessary.

In the video the filter looks very obvious, not the usual black part against a black background all covered in oil and or other crap, so if you can't see it it might not be a part fitted to your car.

I think the OP would have found it if it was fitted in the obvious place.

🙂

Hi Team,

Indeed I had seen this video already and bought the correct part number. I also saw some VW Up! (therefore Citygo) where this filter is clearly accessible. Have done it several times on my former Ibiza II 1.4 MPI (quite similar to the video) and a very old BMW 316 in the past (those were very small and in the engine compartment)

However, this is the theory ... but when the car was lifted up, the sad reality did not match at all !!

I opened a case at Skoda France asking for more details. The person indicated that I should suscribe to Erwin Official platform for more information but this fuel filter no longer needs to be changed in the current maintenance program ...

Edited 2 December, 20252 Dec by fabia29

I don't think it was ever on a service schedule even when you could get to it.

Well it clearly was in the Seat Ibiza II 1.4 MPI 60hp.

clean every 30k km

replace every 60k km

And it would be logical because with not always clean station gas, you can have this filter becoming dirty (like at home with the water taps grid).

But anyway, here are the things with modern cars, they frustrate people like us who like to take care of mechanics.

Edited 2 December, 20252 Dec by fabia29

Are the fuel stations that bad in France, as far as I have seen in decades in the UK there have been a few times when some drivers have blamed fuel stations for poor fuel but almost always this was incorrect, not to say there was not a very rare occasion of an individual station messing up but then a filter would not have helped anyway with what was reported.

If you really wanted to you could probably retrofit a fuel filter, it might involve more work and expense than you expect, or there again it might not, I don't know.

I added a see-through (disposable) fuel filter to my car with carbs only so that I could easily see the fuel had made it to the carbs but that was just a cut into a rubber hose, couple of clamps and a securing p-clip, the car had managed nearly 40 years without as when made there was no filter.

If you want to you can add your location of France to your profile/'Author stats'.

Hi, Sure, Will update my profile.

Concerning your remark yes : we can buy petrol from the usual gas stations but more and more people go to super markets who opened gas stations (not for profit) but to attract Customers. These last ones are invading the market because they sell petrol with a very little margin ... therefore the quality of the tank cleaning is just awful.

Supermarkets here are almost all owned by very large companies and have fuel stations for the same reason but sell high quality fuel generally well looked after so if there are any concerns or rumours about their fuels it got reported on nationally whether true or correct or not. I would expect there to be isolated cases of problems but they would be a tiny fraction of those that claim or report issues, I would expect more often that issues would be by user or just uniformed or deliberate false claims. The UK followed the USA with a claim culture with also blaming others for your own mistakes, ignorance and stupidity but despite this still you don't generally hear of poor quality fuel for cars in the UK over many years.

Since starting car ownership in the 1970s I have never had any issues from poor quality or known anyone else that has but I have not refuelled in France very often at all or been to France for a good number of years.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Let's just say that if I see a truck filling the tank at a gas station, stirring up all the mud and algae, I'll go to a different gas station. Thanks for your encouragement. I am not saying it is like in Angola here, and it should be fine for at least a few years. Just a minor detail, Skoda could have put that filter outside. It's like the back seat in the Fabia (the seat cushion) that doesn't fold down ... little little things obviously ...

Skoda have probably 'value engineered' the fuel pump to fail sooner than they did, so you'll get a new filter then.

I just changed the one on our 2005 mk1 Fabia earlier this year at approx 212000 miles. I would imagine new ones for 2020 cars will not be designed to last that distance.

If there is no filter on the outside of the tank I personally would add an inline one and get rid of the one in tank if possible. I have had problems in the past with mainly diesel in tank filters becoming blocked and have removed them and replaced with an inline one. Chances these days of getting dirty petrol I reckon is very small but its worth having a decent filter just in case plus you dont know how much sediment etc is in the bottom of the tank especially on older vehicles and outside the tank its easier and safer to change especially when its petrol.

Alasdair

@fabia29 Gas stations have filters for the fuel passing out of the underground tanks and the petrol / diesel pumps on the forecourt have filters. It certainly not Angola where your location is.,

I've been reading this forum for a fair few years now, and problems caused by blocked fuel filters on petrol engined cars are not something that ever seems to happen.

Lots of people change them and cause themselves problems by fitting ones with wrongly rated pressure regulators, and some people cause leaks. Virtually no-one ever solves a problem by changing one.

Ok I am eventually convinced thanks 😉