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First of all undo the 10mm self tapping bolt supporting the metal pipe on the left side of the inlet manifold.
It may help if you remove the flexible pipes and the engine cover to give you better access.
Next, undo the 10mm nut under the dip stick tube. This is actually not supporting the dipstick tube but is holding up the bracket supporting the auxiliary water pump pipe.
Next, push the that bracket down and then towards you to disengage the bracket from the little black stud remaining.
To remove the stud, you need either a 4mm socket or better to use a 4mm midget ring spanner. The stud is a self tapper into the inlet manifold as well. I bought a 4mm midget spanner from EBay.
The dip stick tube is then free to be removed. You may be lucky and if you can get a grip a good tug upwards will loosen it. I found that I managed it by making a loop out of a cable tie then looping it over the dipstick arm with the bolt hole in. I then held the loop and gave me adequate grip to give it a tug upwards. To remove the tube you need to twist it as you raise it, taking careful note of how it comes up and out of the aperture.
Put a bit of oil on the yellow lip of the lower part of the new tube to allow it to slip on more easily. Feed the tube down twisting it into place in reverse of removing it and you will know you are in the correct place as the stud mounting hole will be lined up with the hole in the manifold. It will just sit about 1cm out towards you. You can feel it is on the lip of the pipe down below. Then push down firmly and the tube will click into place and the mounting holes will line up perfectly. If you have got it right, the dipstick will go straight down.
Finally, rebuild in reverse.
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