Is this what my rad hose is supposed to look like?
 

Or is this thing about to pop?


http://www.apexeta.com/img/x5/hose.jpg

Look's like a friend's pet rosy boa, after swallowing its weekly rat...

I'd get a new one.
GL, mD

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and kudos for checking it!!

Maybe I'm missing something, but the clamp around each end of that hose does not appear to have any type of, well, anything, on it. How do you tighten or loosen it, or reuse it? How did they even install it in the first place? Am I OK just using a normal clamp (the ones with the ridges, not the slots that cut hoses)?

I think they are crimp style. I would us the screw clamps when the hose is replaced.

that indeed looks funny. Replace it.

There's no crimp though. What you see in the pic, is how it looks the whole way around, all 360 degrees. It's like a special heat-shrink-metal-band or some shit.

I'll order a new hose tomorrow. Any unique coolant system bleeding requirements for a 4.4? I'm not used to these new vehicles, I'd hate to get a check light, or throw a sensor out of calibration, etc..., LOL

I'll order a new hose tomorrow. Any unique coolant system bleeding requirements for a 4.4? I'm not used to these new vehicles, I'd hate to get a check light, or throw a sensor out of calibration, etc..., LOL[/QUOTE]

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Thanks!

Anyone have a part number for that hose? Checked Pep boys/Advance Auto/Autozone, they all give a generic Dayco part number.

Checked realoem, and it looks like it comes as a large assembly through BMW. Googling the part number (11537500746) seems to confirm this:

GENUINE BMW 11537500746-9 for only $64.59(11 53 7 500 746) from KO Performance


So is that why it has non-removable/reuseable clamps? Can I not get just that hose from BMW? That entire assembly iss $55 from Tischer. It's just a rad hose... Should be $20 max. I'll just get the Dayco for $10 and cut it to fit before I spend $55 on a rad hose.

suit yourself, I would get the BMW hose personally.