Hi all - Fiat Stilo 1.9 JTD. (Long time lurker, having had the same car for over 10 years and nearly 200,000 miles put on it. Coming up for 230 thousand miles, with no big-ticket repairs, so my clueless 'leave it to the garage' approach has served me well up to now.)
I've started having a few problems (which seem to have coincided with my engine under tray finally giving up the ghost), the latest of which was discovering a plastic box attached to a hose was hanging down and dragging on the road after the garage had replaced my nearside coil. By the time I'd decided it sounded nasty and pulled over, I'd already ground a hole in the box so I'm now looking to replace it (or repair if necessary.) I think this thing had previously been sitting on the undertray, but since that fell off has been held on with a cable tie, which the garage have probably forgot to tighten.
The only marking on it is the number 46783555. On Google, that brings up an intercooler hose pipe, but that isn't what this is. It does also bring up one website showing this box, labelled a 'vacuum tank reservoir' however I suspect this isn't its correct name as that's the only website which has this. However, if you take a look at the webpage, you can at least see a photo of the thing: https://shopcar.parts/en/autopart/1161021/46783555-used-vacuum-tank-(reservoir)
As you'll have gathered, I have no idea what I'm doing, so would be grateful for any help with the following:
1. What is it called, so I can try and hunt one down.
2. Anyone know where I can get one cheap?
3. The car has been driving okay for the past 80 miles since I put a hole in this box, although I got a few sporadic intermittent engine fault messages in very wet conditions. Any problem in continuing to drive before I replace it?
4. Has anyone repaired a cracked/broken box like this and how? (E.g. I once did a successful temporary repair on my cracked coolant reservoir by finding a special superglue that worked with that type of plastic and using the same type of plastic, from a 2 litre milk carton, as a patch.)
5. My garage have declined the job of replacing my under tray, as all the fixing points are a mess - presumably corroded/stripped threads etc. Is this a common problem and do people overcome it, or bow to the inevitable when it all goes pear-shaped? And does it warrant the effort involved?
Thanks in advance.
I've started having a few problems (which seem to have coincided with my engine under tray finally giving up the ghost), the latest of which was discovering a plastic box attached to a hose was hanging down and dragging on the road after the garage had replaced my nearside coil. By the time I'd decided it sounded nasty and pulled over, I'd already ground a hole in the box so I'm now looking to replace it (or repair if necessary.) I think this thing had previously been sitting on the undertray, but since that fell off has been held on with a cable tie, which the garage have probably forgot to tighten.
The only marking on it is the number 46783555. On Google, that brings up an intercooler hose pipe, but that isn't what this is. It does also bring up one website showing this box, labelled a 'vacuum tank reservoir' however I suspect this isn't its correct name as that's the only website which has this. However, if you take a look at the webpage, you can at least see a photo of the thing: https://shopcar.parts/en/autopart/1161021/46783555-used-vacuum-tank-(reservoir)
As you'll have gathered, I have no idea what I'm doing, so would be grateful for any help with the following:
1. What is it called, so I can try and hunt one down.
2. Anyone know where I can get one cheap?
3. The car has been driving okay for the past 80 miles since I put a hole in this box, although I got a few sporadic intermittent engine fault messages in very wet conditions. Any problem in continuing to drive before I replace it?
4. Has anyone repaired a cracked/broken box like this and how? (E.g. I once did a successful temporary repair on my cracked coolant reservoir by finding a special superglue that worked with that type of plastic and using the same type of plastic, from a 2 litre milk carton, as a patch.)
5. My garage have declined the job of replacing my under tray, as all the fixing points are a mess - presumably corroded/stripped threads etc. Is this a common problem and do people overcome it, or bow to the inevitable when it all goes pear-shaped? And does it warrant the effort involved?
Thanks in advance.
