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Offline Skilgannon

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Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« on: November 11, 2016, 08:30:57 pm »


What is this pipe. I literally just touched it and it snapped.  the plastic thing the that the rubber pipe goes onto just snapped. What's it for and what's it going into?

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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2016, 08:38:34 pm »
That's from the charcoal canister.

You might get an evap error code but won't affect the car to drive. These pipes often break.
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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2016, 08:45:13 pm »
That's from the charcoal canister.

You might get an evap error code but won't affect the car to drive. These pipes often break.

Would i need to replace the unit now as i can't reattach the pipe as the plastic thingy is broken?
is it safe do drive with this off?

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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2016, 08:53:00 pm »
That's from the charcoal canister.

You might get an evap error code but won't affect the car to drive. These pipes often break.

Would i need to replace the unit now as i can't reattach the pipe as the plastic thingy is broken?
is it safe do drive with this off?
that's just for emission. Cleaning i guess.

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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2016, 08:57:26 pm »
That's from the charcoal canister.

You might get an evap error code but won't affect the car to drive. These pipes often break.

Would i need to replace the unit now as i can't reattach the pipe as the plastic thingy is broken?
is it safe do drive with this off?

Yeah fine to drive. I had a fault code from this for months lol
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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2016, 10:53:37 am »
I replaced mine for £9.90+vat from TPS.  :happy2:

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Re: Whats this pipe that just broke off in my engine bay!
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2016, 12:59:55 pm »
Just to clarify, that's for the pipe  :smiley:  The charcoal canister itself is a whole bunch more cash!

Same thing happened on mine but the previous bodgerowner just glued it back on, which inevitably broke off again as soon as I breathed on it.


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