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sawood12

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Just spent an hour under the car having a general nose around after having the oil leak sorted - turned out to be the gasket for the oil cooler housing (drivers side of engine block where the oil filter screws into) and saw a flexible ribbed hose in the passenger side wheel arch. This hose is about 2 to 3 inches in Dia and points backwards, but isn't attached to anything and is open ended and just jammed between the lower wishbone and the brake line which doesn't seem right to me. So I have a couple of questions:-
1. What is this hose - does it take air into the inner wheelarch to feed the airbox?
2. Should there be a bracket to secure the loose end?

Also I got my Air Con recharged. Is the air con like a climate control system, i.e. do the numbers on the temp knob refer to a set temp which the air con system will automatically regulate cutting in the air cooling system as and when needed or is it simply a basic manual air con system? It doesn't appear to act automatically but the system has been out of action for over a year so I'm not sure if a problem has developed.
 
sounds like the flexi hose is either from the alternator (and placed totally wrong!), or an additional brake cooling duct, maybe similar to the 968 ducts, but definately not std.
 
If the hose is 60mm diameter then it may well be the alternator cooling duct which is in the wrong place. But as Mike noted it could also be an aftermarket hose to cool the brakes.

Though if it is a brake cooler there should be some sign of another one on your right hand side. Some of the brake cooling schemes have a pan type arrangement the hose clamps onto that feeds the air to the inner portion of the vents in the disk.
 
It probably is about 60mm in dia but doesn't look like something to do with brake cooling as it looks like it might be taking air from the wheel arch to somewhere else rathere than feeding air into the wheelarch area. At the other end it turns through 90 degrees through a proper plasting moulding that fits nicely with the wheel arch liner into the inner wheel arch area which is why I thought it might be something to do with feeding the airbox duct that goes into a hole into the wheel arch from the engine bay side. The hose doesn't obstruct the brake cooling hole through the bumper. It does look like it's supposed to be there in that it doesn't look like some sort of aftermarket addtion, but it's just loose and looks like it needs some sort of bracket.
 
Does this hose line up with the air box intake "snorkel" that exits the engine bay into the wheel arch ?
If it does then the other end may be meant to line up with the space that is normally blanked off (where the oil cooler is on the drivers side) to form a "Ram Effect" air supply.
 
It does sound to me as if its the alternator cooling duct that is 'way way' adrift. It should clamp on solid pipes at both ends using hose clamps
 
just look up from the bottom of the car at the back of the alternator. If there's no duct, then that's what it is. Sounds like someone sort of left it out after taking it off and had a guess where it went (a bad guess from the sounds of it)
The inlet (which i suspect it may already be attached to) is about a foot & half infront & below the alternator attachment.
 

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