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Old Dec 9, 2004 | 07:06 PM
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A worn out breather hose from the 710 fill cap to the other side of the engine block needed replacement. I was thinking it might be $15 at the dealer - wrong they quoted me $74.85 for the part alone. I went to an auto parts store and purchased one foot of 3/4" I/D hose for $0.75. Works perfectly!
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Old Dec 9, 2004 | 09:54 PM
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Default $15 or 75 cents hmmmm....

Why go to the dealer at all?
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Old Dec 10, 2004 | 11:17 AM
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I don't go to the dealer often. I know this is a common hose to fail in fact I think TerminA8r just had the same hose fail on his pick-up trip from Houston. For $0.75 I reccomend that anyone who still has the original hose should replace it. At 70k miles mine was very deteriorated.
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Old Dec 10, 2004 | 11:30 AM
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I actually just replaced mine. $36.00 from germanauto
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Old Dec 10, 2004 | 01:00 PM
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Was it molded or just a normal hose?
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Old Dec 10, 2004 | 01:45 PM
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Default Those plastic engine covers don't help ...

The covers trap heat, and the hose just cooks itself to failure.
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Molded. Perfect fit. (eom)
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Old Dec 14, 2004 | 08:27 AM
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Default I ordered it from europeanautomotive.com for $31, should be molded to perfect fit (eom)

Driver side breather hose, part # 077 103 221 D<ul><li><a href="http://www.europeanautomotive.com/index-exec/">Free shipping over $50</a></li></ul>
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