[2breezy]

I had seen the warnings. I thought, yeah, I should do that. And then FORGOT.

This brittle little hose is a 5 minute job to swap. By anyone, even without tools.

It decided to shit the bed at 65k miles and blew coolant everywhere. I was 45 miles from home, so had to stop several times and refill the coolant with water to make it home without a tow.

Then it took me 1/2 a day to flush the coolant, clean up the engine bay mess and 5 minutes to change the tube. Lots of good guidance here in the forums. I love the fact that you can force the water pump to cycle the coolant. My old e30 was a PIA to bleed the air when flushing.

The funny thing is, I had changed the charge pipe before it was also going to fail. Just forgot I had read about the expansion tube. Was a $20 part then. Paid $44 at the dealer now.

Do not put this off…like me.