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The braid is on the outside of the hose where it will rot and it cant reinforce the rubber as well ALL the braided hose is Crap... Been there, replaced that! BTW what VW comes with a 10 year 100K warrantee? the Golfs have 2/24 these days I believe. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "joshua brooks" <joshua_bro@msn.com> To: "type3" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:28 AM Subject: [T3] cloth covered fuel hose > What exactly does everyone have against new cloth braided fuel hose? I > bought some fuel hose from the vw dealer(yes they still make fuel injected > cars). It fit like a glove(in fact I would probably have to cut it to get it > off) and I haven't had a problem with it. I just find it hard to believe > that a company offering a 100,000 mile 10 year warranty on their cars would > use defective fuel hose. BTW I believe other european car makers still use > the braided hose too. > > Josh Brooks > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >