Coolant hoses - ever had one fail?

[iain.atkinson at tesco.net]

Yes twice actually, first one on my 90 20vq on the motorway middle of winter, it failed where the hose clamp goes on, tiny cut it was spewed coolant all over the engine bay, didn't damage the engine though as i shut it down real qucik. The second was on my Urs4 failed in the same place for the same reason, i replaced it before it went pop this time.

It is rare though, i have not seen it on any other car in 22 years of motoring.

Iain
> 
> From: "Dave C" <dconner at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/06/29 Thu PM 02:48:54 BST
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Coolant hoses - ever had one fail?
> 
> Just curious ...
> I've seen virtually every cooling system component fail ... heater core,
> radiator, heater valve, expansion tank, but never a hose.  I know a few of
> the hoses on my cars are 20 years old including the little short ones
> associated with the transmission cooler on the type 44 with auto trans.
> Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't want to push it.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen an Audi cooling hose on one of these cars fail from old
> age?
> 
> Dave C.
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