Removing and installing front coolant pipe, Polo: VW 1.6 TDI (CAYA, CAYB, CAYC)
Step-by-step removing and installing front coolant pipe, Polo for the VW 1.6 TDI: 27 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Polo 6R (2009–2014)
- Opens: coolant
- Renewed: gaskets
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- Disregard (item 4).
- Disregard (items 2, 3, 4)
- Renew gaskets, seals and O-rings.Secure all hose connections with the correct type of hose clips (same as original equipment) Electronic Parts Catalogue (ETKA).
📋 Procedure
- Drain coolant (see the separate procedure).
- Remove air filter housing (see the separate procedure).
- Remove oil filter bracket with engine oil cooler
- Country-specific version for cold countries: Disconnect electrical connector (2).
- Remove crankcase breather hose (1), press release buttons for this.
- Pull off vacuum hose (arrow).
- Unscrew bolt (3), swing air pipe with inlet connection to rear and pull off from turbocharger. [Note: Disregard (item 4).]
- Unclip wiring harness from retainer (arrow).
- Free wiring harnesses (arrows) and electrical connector (1) at bracket.
- Remove air intake hose. To do this, loosen hose clips (1, 2).
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Free electrical wiring and hoses on left air pipe using removal lever80 - 200.
- Loosen hose clip (1) and remove left air pipe.
- Disconnect coolant hoses and free them, loosening hose clips (1) to do so. [Note: Disregard (items 2, 3, 4)]
- Remove electrical connector (2) for Hall sender G40 from retainer and separate.
- Remove bracket from front coolant pipe.
- Remove coolant hoses, loosening hose clips (1) and (3) to do so.
- Undo bolts (arrows) and pull front coolant pipe off cylinder block towards the left. [Note: Renew gaskets, seals and O-rings. Secure all hose connections with the correct type of hose clips (same as original equipment) Electronic Parts Catalogue.]
- Clean or smoothen sealing surface for O-ring.
- Moisten O-ring with coolant and slide onto front coolant pipe.
- Push front coolant pipe into cylinder block.
- Installing intake hoses with screw-type clips (see the separate procedure).
- Install charge air pipe (see the separate procedure).
- Install air pipe with inlet connection.
- Install oil filter bracket with engine oil cooler (see the separate procedure).
- Install air filter housing (see the separate procedure).
- Replenish coolant (see the separate procedure).
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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