[s-cars] Power Steering Hose Replacement

[Tom Green]

The hose in question is the Brake hydraulic pressure hose 4A0 612 065,  
commonly called the "J" hose.
It does list for $485 and sells at a discount at Miramar Audi for  
$360. <www.genuineaudiparts.com>

HOH can indeed do the repair with a 1 day turnaround plus shipping  
time.  It is the shipping that is the
problem here since expediting the 2 LB package gets expensive.  My  
last hose was repaired on 10/25
for $86.25.

It is also possible to get the hose repaired locally, but my  
experience is you need to know exactly what
you need in a repair and be able to communicate that to the shop,  
probably by hovering over the job.
That usually does not go over well with most places, but that is what  
works.  Or, they have to do it over,
as Steve recounts.  Most local repairs cost less, especially  
considering the shipping costs to HOH, but
that doesn't help if it won't fit.

I can get you past the wait for your hose to travel to Spokane and  
back by sending you my recently
HOH repaired hose in exchange for you replacing it with your hose  
repaired by HOH later.  The only
cost above what it would cost to repair your hose is the shipping cost  
to send my hose to you.  The
only requirement is that your hose must be complete and undamaged.   
If, for example, your mechanic has
cut the insulation to examine this leak, he has destroyed its value to  
me as a replacement.

Paul, if you are interested in such an exchange, contact me directly.   
I have done this 18 times, so
it can work very smoothly with little effort.

Tom '95 S6
          '95.5 S6 avant
Knoxville, TN

On Monday November 26, 2012, at 10:05 AM,  Paul Luevano <paul at clarity.net 
 > wrote:

> All-
>
> 	I just got the car back from the mechanic.  One of the things I asked
> to be done was to investigate and fix a power steering leak. Well, it
> wasn't done.  They determined that the leak is from the hose that runs
> from the pump to the accumulator and that this hose in NLA in NA.   
> They
> would have to order the part from the fatherland at some thing north  
> of
> $500 for the part alone, never mind installation.
>
> 	Questions:  Does anyone have part number/source for this hose? Is  
> this
> something that people have successfully had places like
> http://www.spokanehose.com/ rebuild, and if so, what kind of  
> turnaround
> (from Boston) am I looking at?
>
> 	Thanks much!
>
> Paul
> Wayland, MA