Oil Cooler Gasket Help!

[CM2007]

I have just got a new oil cooler gasket for my V6 and It's totally diffeent o the original which is basically just an o ring. The new one they sent is a plastic disc with a hollow shaft in the centre and two plastic prongs sticking up. I have been back onto Ford and spoke to 2 different guys who both say it's right and it has supersceeded from an early one to a later model for engines 2000 onwards and say it should go straight on without issue.

The prongs have to slots to go into and the shaft in the centre would cover most of the thread.

 

Any one done one of these and may be able to shed some light s I now have a car off road and a wife who has to do the school run for 3 kids on the train and walking.

 

Help!

[mk2vr6]

well first off you have a VW engine FORD dealers know sod all about it, go to a VW dealers and ask them for the parts

 

 

but to assist you here's a guy whose done it already, he's American but dont hold that him against him, after all HE went to the VW dealers and got the parts, he's not stupid enough to go to FORDS :)

 

http://passat.stoynev.us/maint/oil_cooler.htm

[CM2007]

well first off you have a VW engine FORD dealers know sod all about it, go to a VW dealers and ask them for the parts

 

 

but to assist you here's a guy whose done it already, he's American but dont hold that him against him, after all HE went to the VW dealers and got the parts, he's not stupid enough to go to FORDS :rolleyes:

 

http://passat.stoynev.us/maint/oil_cooler.htm

 

Ooh you say such kind things, almost as if I was stupid enough to go to VW for Ford parts but ok, you have a point and I have already found VW to be just as unhelpful. "Can't do anything without a chassis number", so I told them it was a Galaxy, they told me to go to Fords. Luckily, I have been in the motor trade for 13 years and as a parts specialist for Mercedes for the last 7 so I know how much trouble shared chassis can be, especially when I get a VW customer coming to me for Mercedes parts and I have to tell them I can only help if they can either provide a doner chassis number off a Merc, or they let me take an educated guess, neither for which I can be liable for should anything go wrong. So in the same vein, at least I have some comeback from Fords because it is a vehicle they are responsible for but VW wouldn't care less. I did find out today that our workshop controller has a friend who is a service manager for VW so he is going to contact him for me.

Thanks for the link.

 

Mike

[CM2007]

All sorted now. Ford no longer sell this part!! so I got one from GSF, car is now back on the road!

 

Mike