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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 08:15 PM
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How Many Second Hose Failures?

My Q2 repair is two weeks old, and a thousand miles. So far so good. Know of one (AutoSaurus) with multiple failures, is anyone else having second and third failures?
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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by tjpdvm
My Q2 repair is two weeks old, and a thousand miles. So far so good. Know of one (AutoSaurus) with multiple failures, is anyone else having second and third failures?
I had a second failure before my Q2 hose was installed. I've got something like 2000 miles on my Q2, but my feeling is that it's the installation procedure that's helping more than the new hose (IOW, removing any and all possible oil from the hose and connection before properly installing the hose).

If they do a recall, I'm going to participate but at this point if it ain't broke I won't fix it!

(My Q2 hose photo below)
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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 10:06 PM
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I had two of the original hose's fail (not sure of Q number) and one Q2 failure. I had ~4500 miles on the Q2 when if failed. I'm now on the Q2, Level III hose. Could be the same as the first Q2 hose but not certain.

Since there is a Q3 hose obviously there is still an issue.

My lack of confidence in MB remains and I am still waiting a response from MB on a buyback.
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