What's this part?

[cardcrash]

After booking an MOT for my blue RS2 which has been sat dormant in my garage over the winter, I went to my mate's house (Trist28), on the way it started misfiring and when I pulled up steam was bellowing out from under the bonnet. It turns out some plastic T-junction in the coolant line had broken off leaving a hose dangling and dumping the coolant all over the road. It was a good idea I went to Tristan's house and not anywhere else or I could well have found myself with a seized engine.

I was able to stick the hose back on to the stump that was left and fill it back up with tap water in order that I could drive it home.

Anyway I need a replacement T-junction thing and was looking on 7zap.com but couldn't find the part in question.





So I found the part number on the side:


Doing a search for this number mostly brings up images like this:


The part number is the part number so I assume this has to be right, so is this what I'm looking for?

[Kris81]

[cardcrash]

Thanks, I thought it didn't look right, and I just found an image that looked more like the one on my car and the one you just put up...

[Error404]

That's the coolant temp sensor for the climate control, LHD only

You need get that steering rack gait or replaced mate, will get crap in there and ****** you rack, also an MOT failure iirc.

[Trist28]

We need to put your rack boot on too

[cardcrash]

Well that's the steering rack boot fixed, happy now Alex?

[mcandmar]

That's the coolant temp sensor for the climate control, LHD only

I was wondering why i have never seen it before, thanks

[State'd RS2 Coupe]

They also have a special design feature to only fail on spirited runs or middle of no where roads... I carry a backup (now).

[cardcrash]

Well it's all fixed now and I have a spare, but why was that green retaining clip referred to as "evil" in post #2? It gave me the impression it was going to give me trouble but I had no difficulty getting it off or putting it back.