Destroyed foam cold air intake - what to replace with?

There's a twisted mess of wire and foam shreds where what I assume my cold air intake used to be (1990 GTI Cabriolet) - any idea what I should try to replace it with?

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Which are you referring too.
A Cold Air intake on the engine, or the heating system air inlet.

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Thanks Briano1234. Here you go, does this help?:


 

That looks to be the Air Snorkel that is connecting the airbox to the Ram behind the bumper at or near the front Transmission Mount…On my 90's it was a plastic hose assembly, but I am sure that yours looks to have been replaced with Pre-Heat Exchange hose Similar to that which comes off the manifold pre-heat to the air box.

There are threads on Cabby-info.com that tells you how to modify that, and then connect it to a larger diameter pipe (PVC) that is secured Behind the back side of the grille.

Thank you, I'll take a look!

Just the air intake pipe.
Early cabs and the carbed versions were plastic.
It seems later cabs had these spiral wire covered sponge pipes.



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Great, thanks - no doubt they will be rare as anything but I'll have a go at finding a plastic one.

Just have a look out for someone breaking a late cabby.
But the issue being is these are getting old.
I just bought some foam and re wrapped mine.
 


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Yeah, I considered that, but the metal is wrecked too

From the pictures it looks very similar to the air intake hose used on a Mk2 Golf. That is still available from VW Heritage

hi Vic
do we know for sure the mk2 hose is the same for a late cabby? mine too has disintegrated and im eager to fix
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Have a look on ETKA and track the number down then compare it with this one. I've just had a look, the Mk2 air hose is 191 129 627.
What year is your car and type of injection?

I ended up with a 'VW Golf 1 Cabrio Ansaugstutzen Stutzen für Luftfilter 067133899' from eBay, which fitted very well.

mine is a '92 sportline 1.8 gti

Paprika said

I ended up with a 'VW Golf 1 Cabrio Ansaugstutzen Stutzen für Luftfilter 067133899' from eBay, which fitted very well.

i just searched - this doesnt look right:
https://www.ebay.de/p/1816989617

Sorry, I may have confused myself with the German. Just looked back in my eBay purchases, and found this