Ireland Engineering coolant hoses

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OnTheFritz
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Ireland Engineering coolant hoses

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Have an odd conundrum. My lower radiator hose started leaking a little while ago, enough to take the car off the road until I could fix it. I decided to order a set of Ireland Engineering silicone coolant hoses for half the price of ordering a full set of Genuine BMW hoses. But it turns out, IE's hose set for the "late-model E24" only goes up through cars with a production date of 06/87. Mine is 08/87, and as such, half the hoses I just ordered don't match the hoses on my car now (namely the upper hose with the T-junction before the t-stat housing and hook-shaped hose below the elbow and upper hose), and some hoses just don't exist in the kit (a mysterious 3rd heater core hose and the hose off the T-junction on the upper hose). So for now I'm stumped ](*,)
I'm calling IE in the morning to get a definite answer (since they wouldn't pick up tonight even though it was over an hour before their stated close time) in the hopes of either getting the right hoses or getting a refund and grabbing the proper OEM hoses. I'm shocked at the oversight of listing them to be fitted on a "late-model" car when they are not for a real late-model car (post 06/87), unless they just lump all E28-based cars into the same category without regard for design changes :evil:
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Re: Ireland Engineering coolant hoses

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I'm sure you just missed the list way down @ the bottom of the page.


Hoses included in this kit are:
11 53 1 276 647 (09/82-06/87)
11 53 1 289 859 (09/82-06/87)
11 53 1 266 459
11 53 1 284 598 (After 09/82)
11 53 1 274 210 (After 09/81)
64 21 1 368 715 (After 09/82)
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