those are your secondary air pump lines. they are VERY fragile.
What’s the problem with it being open? Just takes longer to heat up?
Do you have a GLI Edition? I really like those actually…
actually i’d venture to guess it is not your thermostat. I’d guess the water pump has come apart. Super common on those so called “hands of god” motors.
just replaced the waterpump on my vr6 today…pain in the ass, and was gunna do the thermostat but is gunna be a pain in the dick to get to so ill wait till i do my timing chains and have my tranny out…good luck with replacing your thermostat
i was going to create… “the OFFICIAL chris’s VW is broken thread” but I enjoy seeing your name on a daily basis in multiple threads <3
difficult to get at but it can be done without removal of the alternator. Just unbolt the bracket holding your n249 valve in front of the intake mani. Disconnect the wiring harness and pull the bracket out of the way.
Tmrw I’ll be tearing it apart, whether I replace just the t-stat or everything under the hood is another issue.
This car will be for sale in the spring.
Fixed.
I dont know why anyone would do that???
do what?
do that!
Haha I’m boggled, pics in a few
mind “bottling”
Haha, speaking of bottling…I have 2 liters of really yummy coolant if anyone would like. It’s a combination of pink, orange and green…mmmmm.
Anyways…this is why my heat wasn’t working… :picard:
Someone decided to drill holes in the thermostat for additional “cooling” lol.
FAIL!
I can’t comprehend the amount of dumb that the previous owner must have been to do this kind of stuff to a perfectly good car lol.
HUGE thanks to Mike (Badnewsmini) for helping me out :tup: it was a pain in the butt spot to locate a thermostat, but then again it is a VW lol.
lol… is it working now??? lol at “their” fix.
It’s blowing nice toasty hot air and no check engine light for the coolant system anymore :tup:
Now I just need 4 new coilpacks to get rid of the random misfires in cylinder 1 and 3…lol
until the next problem…
wonder if you could swap a reliable kawi motor into it?
meh. nm, then you’d have some more electrical problems or something.
^lol, I told Mike I wished that Kawi made a car
SEE. T-Rex… lol
or zx-9car.
