Oil leak at front of van? Help please

A customer of mine drove back from France without a steering coupler. The dangling bolts caught the bit on the steering box. He had about 1/2 turn of free play, but soldiered on, not even looking underneath. Possibly a relative of @lost-en-france .

That's what happens when you chuck your cracked but serviceable original coupler and replace with a Marmitee one. It tears to pieces, this one then jumped over the chassis and wrapped around the brake pedal lever stopping it fully returning, so he did a few hundred miles with the brakes on a bit too.

That's why I recommended keeping yours, but looking out for a good replacement. Some replacement ones are dangerous.

 

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Forget that. Don't scare the woman.

Someone on here sells a service kit. @keith I think

 

golly its only the the iow most miles your gona do is 3 maaaan !

 

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Far from it. It's your opinion as is my reply. Not sure who you offended though.

A secondhand box is just as likely to leak or be rubbish anyway.

 

You on way to IOW then !

 

Wee in your ashtray, nobody uses them anymore

 

I am on the 2 o'clock red funnel

 

no. I booked red funnel this morning as Wightlink full. I had to go to Southsea to pick car up. Long way round for me

 

In france , they just get out and squat.....And don't think some idiot cyclist will just randomly emerge from a wood..

 

This is from a facebook page:

"Just ordered one from machine7 listed as genuine VW and its come and its not"

 

Oem doesn't mean genuine, it essentially means manufactured by the factory that supplied genuine items

 

Putting in "Genuine and VW" in the description I feel isn't as clear as just putting " Original equipment manufacturer ", they can make to any standard now as they won't ever see a VW QA dept.

 

It's meant to be misleading but it's not illegal, the listings need reading twice to be sure

 

Ive got a genuine one sat here awaiting fitting when the vans done, if anyone would like to come and have a sniff you are more than welcome