Wow, that $300 hose should last longer.

I'm at over 190k miles with all OE hoses. I removed the lame crush clamps on the low pressure hoses and installed good clamps (and changed fluid @ 100k).

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'03 X5 4.4 Sport, last of the M62s (8-03 build date)
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