[s-cars] silicone coolant hoses

[Steve Mills]

I didn't have any burst, but a car I bought where the PO had installed the
full set leaked despite careful tightening and high quality clamps.

I finally gave up and went back to stock- I can't recall ever seeing any of
them fail, and I've had S-cars with well over 200K miles.

Steve


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:40 PM, chris chambers
<fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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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