Originally Posted by Bolin (Post 2671471)

Hi folks



Anybody know if the heat shield for the back box on diesel models was deleted at some point (before Oct 2002)?



Mine doesn't have one, there is no change shown in the parts list or the Drive bulletins and I can't be sure it ever had one (however, it certainly never had the steering rack and lower tie-bar heat shields despite there being no mention of those having been deleted but they obviously were).



I also noticed in the Haynes manual that the diesel shown, late 2003 model or later, doesn't have the back box heat shield and the car would only have been 2-3 years old when photographed.



I have heard reports of cars failing MOT's due to missing this heat shield, so I'd like to get to the bottom of this.



Ta, Bolin.

Originally Posted by Bolin (Post 2671474)

Cheers Andy :) - do you know if the VIN before or after 270971??

Just wondering as my June 2001 V6 wasn't reg'd until Feb 2003 so you never know, maybe yours was reg'd late too and the heat shield was deleted after build?? (here's hoping..) :shrug: