Can anyone recommend a source for replacement top and bottom hoses please.

Sure can! ;)

 

I supply stainless steel top and bottom coolant hoses. Also do the full silicone hoses.

 

The hard pipe kit is made from mirror polished stainless steel and comes with silicone couplers in either red, blue, black or yellow.

 

The fully silicone hoses can be had in either red or blue only. Contrary to what you find on eBay our hoses are a minimum of 4-ply silicone with an additional liner to give the hoses structural integrity. Most of the eBay crap is not even silicone, despite what is advertised, and will soon perish.

 

Prices (excl. postage):

 

Stainless steel top & bottom coolant hoses: £140.00

Silicone top & bottom coolant hoses: £99.00

 

Lead times on these is approximately 10 days for the stainless steel kit and upto 28 days for the silicone kit.

 

I also do a matching set of intake pipes in stainless or silicone.

 

Let me know if any of the above appeals.

 

Regards,

 

Dan

not to slandories then?

not to slandories then?

 

:confused:

 

It is not slander when you have 100% undeniable proof that ebay silicone (which mostly originates in China) is in fact less than 13% silicone.

 

BTW "slandories" is not a word - slanderous is. ;)

So are the autobahn 888 hoses rubbish ive seen a few sets fitted on this site they are are chinnese made sold on ebay.

So are the autobahn 888 hoses rubbish ive seen a few sets fitted on this site they are are chinnese made sold on ebay.

nope, they are decent, my cousin has had a set of boost and cooland hoses on his car for nearly 2 and a half years, and no probs

:hyper:

Well, you win some, you loose some. I've had Autobahn silicone sent to me with parts (boost hoses and various couplers) and they were of very poor quality. More rubber than anything else.

 

However, to the best of my knowledge the Autobahn silicone hoses are only 2 or 3-ply max which will go soft and squidgy over time causing all sorts of cooling problems. Try this little test: go for a spirited run in the car until it is good and hot. Open the bonnet and rev the engine. 9 time out of 10 you'll see the boost pipes (and coolant pipes) collapse in on themselves. That's not a good thing by the way ...

 

In any case - I'm willing to accept that some silicone parts sold on ebay are decent. However, experience has taught me that the majority isn't worth the price you pay for it.

the hoses are 3 ply IIRC, and are not the best, but they are decent enough, the whole intercooler kit, with piping, and cooland hose kit came to 250 quid delivered, which was a bargain IMO, maybe the quality has slipped even more since then