Thanks for the info. Is that how much a charge cooler is? Wow had no idea it was that much when I had mine changed under warranty (for oil pooling around the support bracket at the front).
From memory the new charge cooler unit itself was somewhere around £400 but there is a lot of ancillary pipe work changes which brought the parts bill closer to £1k and then the rest is labour as it’s a fairly big job with all of the pipe work re-routing. I didn’t really question it as it was a warranty job but I did gasp when I heard the bill, there was certainly a lot of new stuff under the bonnet after they completed the job.
If you fit a separator in the line you can still terminate the vent at the original connection on the induction. I’d advise going for the biggest separator you can get as it will increase the period between manual draining. Make sure you don’t restrict the bore of vent system as that will lead to a whole load of other issues, better to go bigger than the original.
