High pressure hose problems?

[Kneale Brownson]

If you didn't buy an OEM Audi hose or have some known good rebuilder like
Spokane hose do your hose for you, you well may have suffered the kind of
failure the Worldpac people reported.


At 10:20 PM 12/20/2004 -0700, Dennis Unsworth wrote:
>Hose problems here as well. '90 200 TQ, high side hydraulic hose started
>seeping not long after I got it with 150k miles. When the hose gave out, we
>replaced it. But that one *blew* a few months later - quite exciting.
>Replaced on warranty, though I had to pay labor. Seven months later, the
>replacement seeped for about a month, then blew out as well.
>
>Supplier says he's out of hoses for now, and I'm driving with manual brakes
>and steering. What's your guess on the chances the pump is the culprit? This
>note posted today caught my interest: "The guy from WorldPac said that they
>were sourcing their hoses from Audi, too many returns and problems with the
>hoses they were selling in the last year or so... "