smic pikey mod

[Nath.]

I was on briskoda today and saw a thread about the smic on the fabia vrs, It seems that the vrs has no vent in the wheel arch liner, my fr has this and I was wondering if just the tdi and 20vt ibiza's have this or is it all of them?

It seems to aid the AC getting rid of hot air from the compensator so that's why I am asking


http://www.briskoda.net/forums/fabia/pikey-mod-1a-members-patience/56570/


http://www.briskoda.net/forums/fabia/leave-pikey-mods-after-fmic-fit/68551/

 

[Tom B]

The best SMIC pikey mod is the remove the foglamp that's in its way.

 

[Ibiza Evo 2]

Who needs that vent anyway

 

[spyke85]

I saw that and was meant to check my car to see if I had it. Do the FR TDi's have the vent? Too cold and dark to go outside now!

 

[Fl@pper]

theres a few threads around when the Leon boys started adding it from the audi TT arch liner

been covered a few times

 

[mhill]

Ive got that vent on my 1.4, always wondered what it was for!

 

[Ibiza Evo 2]

I saw that and was meant to check my car to see if I had it. Do the FR TDi's have the vent? Too cold and dark to go outside now!

Yes they do

 

[boss1986]

on my 1.4 sport aswell

 

[Nath.]

thats interesting, I wonder why the fabia vrs has no vent for it's smic?

 

[m0rk]

it'll be to alleviate pressure rather than aid cooling... the pressure might be released another way on the skoda

 

[muddyboots]

I was surprised to find my Passat doesn't have a vented arch liner, even though it has the same engine and similar SMIC as the Ibiza.

However, I did some logging with vag-com back in the summer and I couldn't get the intake temps over 50-60ºc no matter how hard I tried, yet with the Ibiza which DID have a vented arch I could get it to 80-90º quite easily.