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Went to change spark plugs, in trying to remove the thin breather hose from the air box the stem has totally broken away, just my luck, any idea how to fix or is it a replacement box?

Has this engine seriously overheated in the past..?
You seem to be breaking parts nobody else has issues with.

Makes me wonder if the parts have been 'cooked'
 
Has this engine seriously overheated in the past..?
You seem to be breaking parts nobody else has issues with.

Makes me wonder if the parts have been 'cooked'

No I don't think so Ok I did wiggle it a bit and the stem is at best 5mm its another design part that requires taking apart but was not made beefy enough, the hole is also off center so may have made it worse, and, I replaced the pipe when we got the car(18 months ago) so it would not have had any oily deposit on it to help it slide off in future, like today?

Having a coffee and am in the process of trying to glue it though I'm not too hopeful it will hold/last?
 
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Has this engine seriously overheated in the past..?
You seem to be breaking parts nobody else has issues with.

Makes me wonder if the parts have been 'cooked'

No, this is another common and well-known issue with the 500.

Many of these get broken by careless fitters at franchised delaerships during servicing; it's not at all unusual to find them damaged or broken.

Some have fixed this by gluing them back together, but if you can find a suitably-sized brass fitting, you could likely engineer a much more durable repair that's better than new.

Many, if not most, secondhand airboxes will have this part broken or damaged. New ones are stupid money.

It's another example of the 500's weak technical design.
 
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I'm going to try this fix first

The black spigot is removable, but you can't buy it separately.

Anyone with a lathe could make a far superior replacement.

Be careful when removing these pipes; I find it easiest to first loosen the airbox, then work the pipes off once it's free of the throttle body; this puts less stress on the fragile bits. As I've said before, if you've had the car serviced 'professionally', the spigot may already be broken or damaged. Working on the 500 is not for the cackhanded.
 
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Is that a euphemism for 'poorly built'......:p

I don't think it's a build quality issue; it's more about weak technical design (most of the money seems to have been spent on styling) and cheaply made parts.

Basic assembly quality is light years ahead of anything we ever managed when we had a meaningful UK car industry.
 
Apologies; that should have read UK-owned car industry ;).

You're forgiven! :D

Let us not forget though, that an Italian owned car company is building its cars in Poland, so those of us that have in the past bought and presently buy the 500, we aren't/weren't in any way supporting the UK car industry at all. At least with the Nissan's, Toyotas and Honda's in the list in the link, they're built by British workers on the whole, to a very high standard.
 
The black spigot is removable, but you can't buy it separately.

Anyone with a lathe could make a far superior replacement.

Be careful when removing these pipes; I find it easiest to first loosen the airbox, then work the pipes off once it's free of the throttle body; this puts less stress on the fragile bits. As I've said before, if you've had the car serviced 'professionally', the spigot may already be broken or damaged. Working on the 500 is not for the cackhanded.

I'm not heavy handed, I (think) the problem was that I had fitted a new dry pipe when we got the car and it had stuck itself in place, as I'd pushed it on all the way there was no ability to push on further to break the "bond" so I tried a straight pull,,, and off came the pipe, I'll see if my super glue then epoxy then wire wrapping plus more epoxy works today? Maybe then I can start it to see if there's any water leaks?
 
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