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My car and bicycles all seem to have brokenated at the same time, making it difficult to travel to get parts to fix things 🙁
Got a hole in the charger intake hose of my VAG 2.0 TDI ('05 Skoda Scout), it's the one between the turbo and the intercooler.
Spent an hour this morning wrestling with those VAG spring clips, there is very little to get purchase on with pliers. No doubt there is a nice special tool that workshops use.
Any tips for how to deal with it? I'm also a bit concerned that putting the clips back on may be harder than pulling the hose off.
Is it viable to just cut these clips off and replace them with jubilee hose clamps? Or is that going to leak?
Was fun driving 200 miles on the motorway with the holed hose and having to be super careful with the power and revs to stop the car from going into limp-home mode.
A pair of pincers rather than pliers?
The tool isn't to expensive and quite effective.
moles grips work as do pipe wrenches. anythign with a "parrallel" closing mechanism.
You are talikiing about the ones with two tabs you have to push together around a rubber pipe right?
Or the big plastic pipes with preparatory slide on clips?
I got a tool off eBay which has the compresser bit on the end of a cable so can be wiggled into any location and the bit you squeeze stays remote in you hand. Well worth it.
It's absolutely fine to replace them with regular jubilee clips.
You are talking about the ones with two tabs you have to push together around a rubber pipe right?
Sort of but there are no tabs standing proud, have the squeeze the overlapping ends of the ring that are sitting flush and they overlap by about 35mm and it is thick metal so have to squeeze hard. No way pincers would get purchase - molegrips the ones big enough to span the gap hit the bulkhead before I can get them in position.
Yesterday I did order cheapo long reach clamp pliers but I am not sure if they will work, I've ordered a couple of Mikalor Supra Hose Clamps as a plan B.
No doubt everything will arrive in the wrong time and I'll end up breaking something when wrestling with it 🙂
No doubt everything will arrive in the wrong time and I’ll end up breaking something when wrestling with it 🙂
Ah. Another expert. I have string of parts that haven't quite made it onto a car that shat itself in some totally difference way.
I made this mistake once. Cost me an engine rebuild. New silicon hoses, used jubilees. As the hosts got hot, the pliability and constant pressure of the jubilees meant the coolant was dumped out of the hose on my freshly rebuilt motor as they weren't that right any more.
When you think about it, those spring clips are pretty clever.
Those clips are way better than jubilee clips.
They exert a constant pressure all the way round. And the correct pressure.
With the tool they are dead easy and way faster to fit and remove.
Just buy the tool
My plan B are Mikalor Supra Hose Clamps which are way better than Jubilee Clips and seemed rather cheap for 2 under a fiver, but I do hope that I get the tool and retain the self tightening clips.
I would suggest getting the proper tool, I have a couple of pliers ones and the cable one for poor access. Mole grips normally work ok if you have lots of access, proper locking tools make it a doddle.
The spring clips are actually great as they are constant tension. Faster and more reliable than jubilee clips
Mikalor hose clamps are useful, but are often wider than OEM clips or jubilee clips
I ended up removing all my Mikalor clamps and fitting Norma narrow band stainless hose clips on my last high boost car (30psi) after having issues with Mikalor clamps slipping over 25psi (they had been fine on a previous turbo running 21psi).
I got the flexible hose clamp pliers which was a great help, although still not entirely straightforward due to how stiff the clips are, and they'd sunk into the rubber. I find them a nightmare compared to the regular spring clamps that have proud levers to grap hold of.
Of course, the motor factors database gave the wrong part, I suspect it fits an Audi with a bigger turbo - so I ended up cutting the hose off that and bodging it in place by wrapping some inner tube around the flange to build out the diameter...
I still need to find the correct part...
Oh, I haven't had to deal with those before the ones on my golf stuckupward that made you think for about 5 second you could squeeze them tgetehr with you fingers...
Tell you what though, the metal clip that that locks the whole piece is a right bastard after its been a off a few times and blows the the pipe of evrytime you press the accelerator but conveniently clicks back together everytime you take you foot off and go and see whats happening.
That was a fun afternoon of head scratching.
Can you get hold of an exploded diagram for your engine number?
from memory the first three letter of the number on the aux belt cover or there about?
I dunno, mine don't look like that.
I managed to work out the part number is 3C0 145 828 but it is strange, can't seem to buy an aftermarket part without the connector - the OEM connector is of better quality and has an inner sleeve so would rather just change the hose.
What vehicle is this?
I've never seen a red hose or a clip like that on a VAG product. The charge air pipes are bonded to the metal fitting and are held in by a horse shoe type clip (as seen in your upper photo) on all the ones I've seen. Some early models used a worm drive hose clip, so maybe you just have an alternative there?
Meyle have a good aftermarket range: