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Offline northeast_gti-t

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Found This!!
« on: 26 May 2009, 14:02 »
Yesterday whilst re-fitting my engine covers something caught my eye on the breather hose  :huh: on closer inspection i was suprised (or maybe i shouldn't of been  :grin:) to see that the pipe had a 4-5mm split in the rubber looks like replacement time then!! :shocked: cheers to rhys :afro: who supplied me with the new part number for the breather hose cheers mate  :wink: so first thing this morning i rang pulmans my local dealer who suprisingly had one in stock  :shocked: :shocked: so went over to collect it and 3 new jubilee clips  :smiley: all good now as its been fitted  :wink:

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NOTE THE SHOCKING PRICE!!!! They Wouldn't Budge on discount tho  :sad:

Split Hose :



All Fitted  :smiley:

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Offline Rhyso

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #1 on: 26 May 2009, 14:07 »
no worries Matt :afro:

i'm amazed i got it right  :laugh: :laugh:

what a bunch of gits not giving any discount  :angry: :angry:  got to be one of the most expensive part number changes though!!

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #2 on: 26 May 2009, 14:42 »
I'll have to check mine when I next have the bonnet open

Offline corf

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #3 on: 26 May 2009, 14:45 »
over the weekend notice mine has split, is it worth buying this from awesome gti


http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/product.php?xProd=13304&xSec=1&jssCart=ce153b77948f8cd6f53853bd40db7ef9

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #4 on: 26 May 2009, 15:17 »
Possibly but even more expensive!

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #5 on: 26 May 2009, 18:43 »
no worries Matt :afro:

i'm amazed i got it right  :laugh: :laugh:

what a bunch of gits not giving any discount  :angry: :angry:  got to be one of the most expensive part number changes though!!

Should you get a discount if you mention the forum or something then ???
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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #6 on: 26 May 2009, 19:29 »
no worries Matt :afro:

i'm amazed i got it right  :laugh: :laugh:

what a bunch of gits not giving any discount  :angry: :angry:  got to be one of the most expensive part number changes though!!

Should you get a discount if you mention the forum or something then ???

no but you should ALWAYS haggle  :wink:  I got 10% straight off my EGR valve the other week :afro: and got the labour done at a dicount price!  I did put on my best 'sad puppy dog' expression mind  :laugh: :laugh:

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #7 on: 26 May 2009, 19:42 »
I noticed mine had split back over Christmas time. I managed to get discount from my local Audi dealer for the part. (They are actually cheaper on a lot of 1.8T bits!!)  :wink:
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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #8 on: 26 May 2009, 19:48 »
I found this same problem on mine couldn't belive how much it cost for a bit of rubber!!

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Re: Found This!!
« Reply #9 on: 26 May 2009, 20:09 »
where did u get the jubilee clips from and do they have diff sizes my pipe on the 150 on the top near the steerign fluid bottle came loose so was thinking of getting one for it ta


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