[s-cars] silicone coolant hoses

[chris chambers]

Martin,

Unfortunately the hose failing & 034 claiming it's never happened before are both not unusual.
I have had 3 of that particular hose fail and while  034 has stepped up and replaced each it is still very frustrating.

Many have switched back to the stock hose.

HTH
Chris




>________________________________
> From: Martin Baggenstos <martin.baggenstos at gmail.com>
>To: s-car-list <s-car-list at audifans.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 2:11 PM
>Subject: [s-cars] silicone coolant hoses
> 
>I have had a strange thing happen with one of the 034 silicone coolant
>hoses on my 95 S6. At the end of the large hose that runs between the
>upper part of the radiator and the coolant rail under the intake
>manifold, it started to swell up and then a day later the thing just
>burst wide open. It was only swelling up at the point where it was
>connecting to the coolant rail and I would have to open the reservior
>to decompress the system for it to relax. Has anyone ever had an issue
>like this before. The silicone hoses are suppose to be very strong and
>I am suprised that this happened. I sent the pictures and talked to
>034 but they mentioned that they have never seen this before.
>
>Martin
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