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anyone know any sydney stores that sells radiator hoses for all sorts of cars ? Not keen on paying $110 for genuine nissan top/bottom hose when I can get the reinforeced Gates hoses from ebay for the same price.

I'm taking the radiator out next few days and getting it professionally cleaned so would like to replace hoses while I'm at it .. The factory hoses still look OK (not leaking) but I won't be able to take them off the spouts without cutting as they won't budge after 10 years ..

god what a pain in the ass .. Repco sell the Gates Racing for about $60 (top and bottom) or $70 with new clamps included .. BUT they gotta order them in and that takes 5-10 working days. WTF ? If you order anything from Nissan it's there next day doesn't matter which state it's coming from.. GHEYEEEEYEYEYEYEYEYEEYE.

most of the stuff i order from my local repco is here that afternoon (if ordered on my way to work), and we nearly 200km from brizzy.

but then it may be something that is sent out using the companies preffered courier so they can't just have a same day courier turn up and get it.

however you should be able to get the old ones off pretty easily even if they haven't been taken off since new. just simply remove the clamps and twist them back and forth until they let go. or get a plastic knife and slide it under the hose and move around the hose until it loosens up a bit. i have never had any issues taking hoses off cars. infact i took a radiator hose off my old commodore that hadn't been removed in probably 10 years (the car hadn't only been started about 3 times in the last 5 years for that matter). i just did the twist trick.

hoses gotta be changed anyway ..they're looking a bit tired. I've ordered the gates racing ones from repco ...came to $90 all up with clamps and $20 delivery fee (crock of shit). The worst thing is apparently they were selling these hoses on a special recently for $30 and had stock in most stores and now they're all out... perfect timing as usual :)

Hopefully they don't take "5-10 days" like they said ..that would just suck.

How is this possible...... you posted tomorrow morning??????

Hahaha yeah..... anyway I was gonna say, I remember going to autobarn about a month ago to get top radiator hose... the guy said he couldn't put in part numbers for skylines cause it's an import, but he knew his shit.... he went out the back, came back with one exactly the same size, shape, and bend. I recall it was around $12?

hoses gotta be changed anyway ..they're looking a bit tired. I've ordered the gates racing ones from repco ...came to $90 all up with clamps and $20 delivery fee (crock of shit). The worst thing is apparently they were selling these hoses on a special recently for $30 and had stock in most stores and now they're all out... perfect timing as usual :D

Hopefully they don't take "5-10 days" like they said ..that would just suck.

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