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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: AFARR on June 14, 2008, 11:13:59 AM

Title: Air Conditioner Hose rupture...anyone else??
Post by: AFARR on June 14, 2008, 11:13:59 AM

My wife was driving the 318is and saw White smoke under the hood....called me and told me that it was hissing.   She went to her work, and I stopped on the way there, and checked it out...I had figured it was a radiator issue, so I brought coolant, etc.

Turns out it is the AC hose.  Coming from the compressor (metal) becomes rubber, then metal again as it heads in the R headlight plastic cover area and towards the radiator....

The rubber hose was touching where the battery would be in an american car (front R sheet metal under the coils), and it rubbed a hole in itself over time, and finally gave out.

I can refill the AC myself (and even get a vacuum pump to evacuate the lines) but need a part number for the proper part...real OEM doesn't seem to show a metal--rubber--metal line.  

Any help, or anyone else have the same problem?

Thanks!

Title: Air Conditioner Hose rupture...anyone else??
Post by: Cobra Jet on June 14, 2008, 09:50:31 PM

Is there anyway you can get a picture of the problem area?  I will want to check mine out tomorrow just to be sure the same hose (or other) is not rubbing on anything in the engine bay.