Coolant hoses - ever had one fail?

[Kneale Brownson]

Did you notice whether the hose clamp was the OEM nonperforated type or the
typical perforated hose clamp?


At 02:56 PM 6/29/2006 +0100, iain.atkinson at tesco.net wrote:
>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.