rediculous quote for a small part

[biggy 0]

Hi all, i just bought a 97 highline and spent the last couple of days cleaning it but have noticed that inside the engine bay (bear with me i am not up on car parts yet) there is a part which has sheared off, the car still runs fine and my local garage has said it won't damage anything but i need to replace it. ok here goes from the mass air flow is a large pipe that runs around behind the head from this large pipe there is a smaller pipe that connects to this and comes straight forwards this is connected to a round plastic valve that has a pipe connector on either side the connector from the head side has broken away and i need to replace it but by all accounts you can't just buy this bit you have to buy a whole section which is around £100.if anyone has any idea what i am talking about and can point me in the right direction i would really appreciate it.

[spadam 7]

You can order that part from ford and its half the price sure someone on here will put a part number up for you. think its bout £45 from ford

[bungy 2]

So much easier if you take a photo either with a camera or phone and post that up. I'm sure you'll get all the help you need.

[Ben Seabrook 4]

sharan equivalent - 7M0 128 101 - £22.63 + vat

this is the Ford part number you need mate - I presume you are talking about the small pipe which runs from the top left of the rocker cover into the air filter

[biggy 0]

i think you may be right, i have a printout that my garage gave me i will see if i can add this later on tonight and circle the piece i need which is no 16 on the parts list but also includes parts 9,10,11,12,13

[biggy 0]

ok so i have circled the part on the attached image that i need to replace on my highline. not too sure if the image is attached yet as am unsure how to do it. got a file to attach at the bottom of this message i am about to post so hopefully it'll be there once i reply to thread if not i guess i'll try again. here's hoping.

[biggy 0]

ok well that didn't work, try something else.

[Ben Seabrook 4]

mate it's prob not uploading because the file size is too big, go into photoshop or something similar and re-size it

[xyber 1]

Bit like this one?

[biggy 0]

third time lucky (but i doubt it, will give up and go to ford if this doesn't work)

[biggy 0]

Thank you xyber it is exactly that bit. you hit the valve right on the head.

[Ben Seabrook 4]

well that is the Ford part number quoted earlier then matey although you can just buy a small piece of silicone hose and do it yourself or block both parts off and leave it like that

[biggy 0]

so will it have any effect on the car whatsoever. if i just put a piece of silicon hose onto it what do i do with the small pipe that comes into the top right side of that circular piece?

[Ben Seabrook 4]

you can just block it off mate

[CALICO 130]

i have a second hand one you can have will be going to the east sussex meet when its planned again

[biggy 0]

bugger, just been to ford and ordered it this morning, £31.00 +vat so not too bad really, though reading through the forums i noticed that there was a post about a code coming up on the dash in 01 as a minor fault and in 02 as a major. mines typically got in 02 on the dash so guess i'll have to find out what that is. there was no advisory's from the last service so i guess i'll have to wait and see

[CALICO 130]

it means nyou need a big service some where on here it says how to reset it otherwise you can switch it off in VAG-COM it means service not fault lol