Hi,
My local vw garage only fixes old van’s fitted new stainless steel coolant pipe but just had a mot and the guy in the mot centre said that they was being held up by cable ties are they supposed to be properly bracket to the bottom of the van ?
Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
There were & still are no brackets on mine.
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
Mine are cable tied ( a big one) since the bracket has recently rotted through. Mot in a couple of weeks, wasn't anticipating any trouble for that though. Brickwerks out of stock but it's on my shopping list ..
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
Just shoddily work using cable ties going back to the garage tomorrow for a moan
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
M13esy wrote:Just shoddily work using cable ties going back to the garage tomorrow for a moan
Nothing shoddy about it, did the van have the correct stainless clips when you took it to the garage? Many vans are now running with zip ties due to the originals having been lost over the years.
Why would the glass be anything other than half full?
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
It never had the right clips but the money they charge you think they would of done the job properly
Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
In my book tywraps are good for anything up to 100 degrees C that isn't in the catastrophic failure zone. Even fairly small ones can be hard to remove without cutters or a knife. They are ECO wise suspect but cheap as chips (what was ) and rot proof. With a bit of imagination they can get you out of some tricky engineering situations. Now whether having a some long metal pipes together with a cloud of steaming coolant suddenly appear from underneath a van bombing along at a rate of knots is subject to the vagaries of the human mind but the MOT person would seem to have the upper hand on this one barring a brave challenge.
Must have a squint under my van's nether regions...
Must have a squint under my van's nether regions...
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
You can get stainless steel cable tie style strips. They seem to use a barbed one way catch. I’ve used them on an exhaust and a Webasto with no problems.
They are hard to twist and very sharp so wear gloves and plan your routes. Bending is fine but any kind of sideways twist is tricky.
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They are hard to twist and very sharp so wear gloves and plan your routes. Bending is fine but any kind of sideways twist is tricky.
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Re: Stainless steel coolant pipe brackets
M13esy wrote:It never had the right clips but the money they charge you think they would of done the job properly
Did you make the garage aware that stainless clips are available from one outlet (when in stock)?
Why would the glass be anything other than half full?
'89 panel van, 1.9 DG.
'89 panel van, 1.9 DG.