New coolant hoses

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Grant
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New coolant hoses

Postby Grant » Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:18 am

My radiator and heater hoses are looking a bit worn out, so I was looking around for a kit of new hoses. Does anyone know which brands I should look for? There are a bunch on ebay (HPS, Samco, generic stuff), and I'm wondering what other people use.

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Re: New coolant hoses

Postby grappletech » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:14 pm

I mostly see people using Samco. Thats who I plan on using the next time
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Re: New coolant hoses

Postby EJ86 » Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:33 pm

I got samco on mine, no problems so far after 4 years...
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Re: New coolant hoses

Postby ethergore2 » Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:04 pm

Samco is the only company I know that sells the heater hoses. You can buy them through Option Auto.

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Re: New coolant hoses

Postby ga_goosh » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:06 am

samco is top quality. i have a set of the OBX silicon rad hose from ebay but i hear the walls split easy. i havent had a problem but if mine do split i will replace them with the samco version. samco is the only place you can get the heater hoses. the dealer discontinued them plus they are the same price as the samco anyways. auto parts stores dont sell the correct hose either since for some reason the aftermarket heater cores inlet and outlet point in the same direction which is downand the aftermarket heater hoses support the aftermarket heater cores. I have the samco heater hoses and they fit awesome
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