Gasket obselete....help please

[AdrianC]

What on earth were the designers thinking of when they decided to start to use plastic?

Price. But the plastic stubs have already lasted considerably longer than the designed service life of the vehicle, so they can't have got it THAT badly wrong.

[DavidPallister]

What on earth were the designers thinking of when they decided to start to use plastic?

Money. Far cheaper to injection mold a plastic one than die cast an aly one. As long as the part passes the 10yr/80000mile life simulation test before being released, happy days as far as the manufacturers are concerned.

[ScienceBoy]

True true. Ours has done 120k so...

[Cruz]

Emma the gasket for the pipe to water pump is still available
N 901 685 02
84p plus vat from VW
also in every head gasket or complete engine gasket kit so someone who's got a partial set may have one spare, I may even have one spare but I'm not at work today so can't check

Aidan. The gasket is obsolete from VW

Available here

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and you may as well stock up on N90128802 too whilst your ordering

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