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Dave, I understand that brake hoses are marked with the day/month/year of manufacture nowdays because the German TUV (like Dept of Transport which administers roadworthiness certificates for motor vehicles) requires this. And, I believe they will not provide the annual certificate if the brake hoses are more than, I think, ten years old. I can understand why. My 32 year-old Type 4 had terrible braking performance when I finished restoring it in 1999. (Our local Queensland Dept of Transport was not concerned about the brake hoses when I registered it.) The car would pull every which way under braking, despite being fitted with new master cylinder and rear brake cylinder sleeves, new fluid, new pads, new shoes and correct adjustment. Finally, I decided to try new hoses. And, hey presto! She brakes beautifully, now. I then cut through one of the hoses and found that the interior rubber material was swollen and cracking. Quite soon the hose would have burst and I have no doubt that this would have happened in an emergency, too! Regards, Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia Dave Hall wrote: > > In this case you probably have hoses > > which have deteriorated in the inside and have become blocked. > > This is unfortunately common these days and these hoses can > > only be replaced. > > It's a tribute to the quality in our old Type 3s that it has taken 30 years > to stop the old hoses working, and even then the original ones do not > usually split. > I'm on my third set on my 1982 VW Polo through splitting. No wonder they > now mark them with the day/month/year of manufacture rather than just the > month/year as they used to! > > Dave. > UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club > http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe