VW Polo Air Filter '04 1.2

allthedoyles

Can someone tell me where to find the air filter box on a VW Polo 2004 1.2

Car is quite heavy on petrol , and I reckon it needs to be changed

swhyte027

allthedoyles wrote: »

Can someone tell me where to find the air filter box on a VW Polo 2004 1.2

Car is quite heavy on petrol , and I reckon it needs to be changed

There should be a plastic cover all over the engine.there mite be a ten bolt holding it in and a vacuum pipe on it.take that off turn it upside down and there's a ring of torx screws open that and the air filter is in there.

allthedoyles

Yep there is a cover all over the engine , but we thought that maybe the air filter is located at the exit pipe on the front of the car .

Thanks for quick reply ...............now needs a mechanic to open this cover and replace filter .

How much difference would you think a new filter should make to petrol consumption ?

Alanstrainor

allthedoyles wrote: »

Yep there is a cover all over the engine , but we thought that maybe the air filter is located at the exit pipe on the front of the car .

Thanks for quick reply ...............now needs a mechanic to open this cover and replace filter .

How much difference would you think a new filter should make to petrol consumption ?

When's the last time it was serviced? Does it not make sense to get a oil and filter service if you're going to do anything?

And if you just want to replace the air filter, it's incredibly simple. It's just a few screws...

Andrew33

Same engine as the 1.2 Fabia, you should be getting 46-50mpg in suburban driving, that's what our almost 9yr old one does anyway! if you're driving the nuts off it it'll be a lot heavier obviously.

allthedoyles

Its okay for an oil / oil filter change .

Has been heavy on petrol for a while now , so gonna change plugs and air filter .

allthedoyles

Andrew33 wrote: »

Same engine as the 1.2 Fabia, you should be getting 46-50mpg in suburban driving, that's what our almost 9yr old one does anyway! if you're driving the nuts off it it'll be a lot heavier obviously.

Its a lady driver (23) ....Definately not getting more than 30 mpg

Andrew33

allthedoyles wrote: »

Its a lady driver (23) ....Definately not getting more than 30 mpg

I remember my dad (mechanic) telling me a story when I was younger, lady brings her car (Renault 4) into his garage complaining that it was "eating the juice".
Dad checks the car over and takes it for a spin, all seems fine. Then he asks her to take it for a spin with him as a passenger, she pulled the gearlever (poked straight out tru the dash roughly where the radio/heater controls are in a modern car) back into 2nd, hung her handbag on it and drove everywhere in 2nd gear!!!

I'm not being smart or sexist but.....
23yo girl could be just as heavy footed as a bloke!
And girls tend to hang onto lower gears rather than change up, still should be better (a lot better) than 30mpg though.

swhyte027

Are u sure it's Notting to do with the rise in petrol because filters won't make that much of a difference and that's being dead honest.maybe there is a underliein problem with the engine that u are in aware of that would be my guess.

allthedoyles

It is more than likely a combination of many things , including the air filter , plugs , driver , cost of petrol, and underlying engine problem .

Will probably need a mechanic to get to the bottom of it , and if a VW Polo 1.2 '04 does 46-50 around town as stated above , there is a lot of investigating to be done .

swhyte027

You would be best served getting a mechanic run a diagnostic check on her and give it the once over.also get the throttle body cleaned and reset as this could be part of your problem.my other halfs mams polo was drinking petrol and I done the throttle body and reset it and it had a Hugh effect.

Atlantic Dawn

Have you checked the pressure in the tyres? When was the oil and plugs last changed?

Andrew33

allthedoyles wrote: »

It is more than likely a combination of many things , including the air filter , plugs , driver , cost of petrol, and underlying engine problem .

Will probably need a mechanic to get to the bottom of it , and if a VW Polo 1.2 '04 does 46-50 around town as stated above , there is a lot of investigating to be done .

I actually said suburban driving, I'd imagine it'd be lower if it was all town driving.

Nissan doctor

Unless the filter is manky and hasn't bee changed in a few years or something its unlikely to be the airfilter causing the problem.


IMO you don't need a mechanic, Its only a few standard screws.


What are you comparing its fuel consumption to? Is it heavier then it was before, or heavy compared to a different car? Different driver?

allthedoyles

Noticed that its been heavier on juice in the last few months .

Have used Dipethane , in both the VW Polo and a Peugeot , and there was a noticable improvement in MPG in the Peugeot ...........But not in the Polo.

Going to give the VW a full service with concentration on improving mpg .

I expect to get at least 35mpg around town and maybe around 40 in suburban driving .