Oil Breather Tube

[cobram at juno.com]

When the breather was bad on the 200TQA I placed a cut piece of flexible
copper pipe (type used for gas appliances) and attached with two hose
clamps, worked fine for the 6 or so months it took me to get around to
replacing it.

This is NOT a dealer only part.  The rubber style is still available, and
cheap if I recall correctly.  WorldPac has it listed as:

054103227A  (Full list price of $49)

054103223 and
054103223A (Full list of $8.00 on each of these two).

I suspect the $49 is with hard pipe.  The original all rubber one lasted
10+ years on my car.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/


 "Ron Soderberg" <Ron.Soderberg at house.leg.state.mn.us> writes:
> Color me mad as hell. The Oil Breather hose on our 1990 Audi 100 has
> a hole and looks like a rotten banana peel. I told this an dealer
> only part so call the local audi dealership. I find out that the
> original hose has been replaced with six separate parts going from
rubber to
> a metal tube. The cost is $90 for all parts.
>
> It obvious that the original rubber design was flawed. But to now
> ask customers to pay 4 times the cost of the original part for the
> replacement is ridiculous. So here are my questions:
>
> Is this a dealer only part? If not, where is it avaliable?
>
> Has any fashioned a replacement part in lieu of getting the Audi
> part?
> If so, how did you do it?

________________________________________________________________
GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!
Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!
Join Juno today!  For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.