thefingers
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I wonder if anyone can help me out, BTW sorry for the long post thought the info may be useful to others!...
My 3 year warranty expired at the start of March and you guessed it, thats when I start to get problems...
It started two weeks ago when I noticed a loss of coolant in the reservoir when I went to top up my washer bottle. So topped it back up and a few days later checked it again and it had gone down again! (not just a bit, a lot!). So last weekend I got under the hood and located the problem, alongside the water pump at the top of the engine one of the bolts which holds the pump to the engine has been wearing its way through a rubber hose (found out there is a rubber separator around the pipe which I guess is supposed to hold the pipe away from the housing but wasn't!).
Not sure if its a common fault but you may want to check it out on your own Ibiza (I have a 1.9 TDI diesel, petrols may be different), the pipe is located under the main engine cover (from the top) and is a black rubber hose about 8 inch long x 0.5 inch wide (again at the top of the engine) on the right side (looking from the front) of the main engine block. The hose runs from the front to the back of the engine joined by T junctions at both ends. To me it looks like a silly design and is ridiculously close to the water pump (in fact touching on mine).
Anyway solved this problem by shortening the hose, re-connecting and placing the separator so it does its job properly, the plan is to head to a local scrappy for a replacement pipe soon (preferrably one a little bit longer!). This seemed to work for a week until, same thing again. I've spent most of the afternoon tracking down the leak and this time it looks much more serious. The leak appears to be be at the back of the engine compartment where two steel/aluminium pipes pass through into the main passenger compartment, just above the exhaust heat shield.
It looks like it may be the heater matrix but it looks like a pain to get to and I'm not totally convinced it is the problem. I have looked around on this forum and others and it has been suggested that on VW and Audis that the heater matrix leaks into the foot compartments, however on the Ibiza the interior is bone dry.
So my questions are:
1) Has anyone experienced anything similar?
2) Does anyone know what work is involved to get to the heater matrix? (Haynes manuals don't seem to exist yet for anything since 2002!)
3) Is there anything else which could be leaking rather than the heater matrix?
4) Does anyone know where I may be able to order a heater matrix in at a reasonable price? I have looked around and I can find VW parts, would these be suitable for an Ibiza?
Many thanks in advance!
My 3 year warranty expired at the start of March and you guessed it, thats when I start to get problems...
It started two weeks ago when I noticed a loss of coolant in the reservoir when I went to top up my washer bottle. So topped it back up and a few days later checked it again and it had gone down again! (not just a bit, a lot!). So last weekend I got under the hood and located the problem, alongside the water pump at the top of the engine one of the bolts which holds the pump to the engine has been wearing its way through a rubber hose (found out there is a rubber separator around the pipe which I guess is supposed to hold the pipe away from the housing but wasn't!).
Not sure if its a common fault but you may want to check it out on your own Ibiza (I have a 1.9 TDI diesel, petrols may be different), the pipe is located under the main engine cover (from the top) and is a black rubber hose about 8 inch long x 0.5 inch wide (again at the top of the engine) on the right side (looking from the front) of the main engine block. The hose runs from the front to the back of the engine joined by T junctions at both ends. To me it looks like a silly design and is ridiculously close to the water pump (in fact touching on mine).
Anyway solved this problem by shortening the hose, re-connecting and placing the separator so it does its job properly, the plan is to head to a local scrappy for a replacement pipe soon (preferrably one a little bit longer!). This seemed to work for a week until, same thing again. I've spent most of the afternoon tracking down the leak and this time it looks much more serious. The leak appears to be be at the back of the engine compartment where two steel/aluminium pipes pass through into the main passenger compartment, just above the exhaust heat shield.
It looks like it may be the heater matrix but it looks like a pain to get to and I'm not totally convinced it is the problem. I have looked around on this forum and others and it has been suggested that on VW and Audis that the heater matrix leaks into the foot compartments, however on the Ibiza the interior is bone dry.
So my questions are:
1) Has anyone experienced anything similar?
2) Does anyone know what work is involved to get to the heater matrix? (Haynes manuals don't seem to exist yet for anything since 2002!)
3) Is there anything else which could be leaking rather than the heater matrix?
4) Does anyone know where I may be able to order a heater matrix in at a reasonable price? I have looked around and I can find VW parts, would these be suitable for an Ibiza?
Many thanks in advance!
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