Washer bottle part number

[megatron-uk]

The washer bottle on my recently acquired 2017 2.0 TSi (GT, no headlight washers) has the part number 1K8.955.448, but I am not finding any matches online for suitable replacements other than in Latvia or Lithuania!

Does anyone know the differences between pre-and-facelift parts? I know mine does not have the water level sensor. The main thing is whether the non-facelift part actually fits the facelift mounting holes.

[pranelio]

Cheers from Lithuania.

Pre face lift part number is 1K0955453S
Face lift part number is 1K8955453A

Can't find 1K8.955.448.

Anyway, try your local VW Dealer, they should be able to source the part for you. In EU a brand new one costs around 60 euro.

[megatron-uk]

Thanks for those part numbers. Here's the one which is on my car:

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It's not entirely intact, but it appears to be just a basic one, a single pump and a single outlet, since I don't have xenon lights/headlight washers fitted.

I suspect the easiest thing to do is measure the distance between the mounting holes and find which of those other part numbers matches. I'm finding, in general, quite a lot less parts available for the facelift model.

(edit) ... and literally as I posted this I found my first example of a matching part in the UK! Have been search for 4 or 5 days and found nothing. Hopefully I get this one, as it's the last part I need in order to put the front end back on this car.

[megatron-uk]

A better look with it unbolted from the inner wheelarch:

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Seems to have none of the bungs/castings for additional drillings/take-offs that the earlier parts have.

[megatron-uk]

Replacement part fitted perfectly:

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Not sure why it was smashed when I bought the car - there was no front bumper fitted, but other than the washer bottle there are no signs of damage what so ever. If something had hit it hard enough to smash the bottle under the arch there, I would have expected headlight to be broken, wiring loom clips to be snapped, arch liner gone etc. But no, nothing.

Anyway, that's the only example of that part number that I've been able to find (second hand, anyway).

Maybe a run-out part number or something. All of the parts on my car date from July through to October 2017.

[pranelio]

Maybe it was filled with summer liquid and then went to sub zero temperature? I guess expanding ice could do such damage.

[megatron-uk]

Possible, I suppose! With no other damage there (and lots of fragile plastics around it) I find it hard to explain it through any obvious means!