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[Marks DTM Calib]

Pete, look up pirtek in your local yellow pages when you have the pipes off take them complete to a pirtek fitter (they are usually mobile unless there is a depot near you)he will make new ones for you!! and i bet the price is a lot lees than vauxhall if you offer him cash!!!

Dont use pirtek, find a local independent, pirtek are the singlr most expensive supplier I have used

[aaronjb]

Incidentally, Pete, is it a 2.5 or a 2.2 that you're replacing the pipework on?

[Elite Pete]

Incidentally, Pete, is it a 2.5 or a 2.2 that you're replacing the pipework on?

It's a 2.5

[Omegatoy]

Pete, look up pirtek in your local yellow pages when you have the pipes off take them complete to a pirtek fitter (they are usually mobile unless there is a depot near you)he will make new ones for you!! and i bet the price is a lot lees than vauxhall if you offer him cash!!!

Dont use pirtek, find a local independent, pirtek are the singlr most expensive supplier I have used

yeh they do cost if you go through the company, but i used a guy that fixed my truck hydraulics, so go mates rates, and they were the only national company i could think of when posting!!
howevfer any hose maker should be able to do it, it only needs new pipe/hose swaged on to the old connectors!

[JWDF]

Hi Pete
i've been waiting 2 weeks for my pipes to come from Vauxhall for 2.5td 2001

hope everything works out for you Mate 

[Elite Pete]

Got them sorted today by a local chap for £30. It's taken all day to get them fitted (inbetween the rain) so all i've got to do is refit the alternator, power steering pump, auxiliary belt and viscous fan oh and I might as well do the oil filter before refilling with fresh oil just hope it stops raining long enough

[aaronjb]

Incidentally, Pete, is it a 2.5 or a 2.2 that you're replacing the pipework on?

It's a 2.5

Well.. at least now I know how difficult it's going to be for me

Hopefully it won't be pi**ing down with rain when I choose to do it, though! 

[Elite Pete]

Incidentally, Pete, is it a 2.5 or a 2.2 that you're replacing the pipework on?

It's a 2.5

Well.. at least now I know how difficult it's going to be for me

Hopefully it won't be pi**ing down with rain when I choose to do it, though! 

Its not that bad a job really, its just dirty and very fiddly. The pipes come from the oil cooler, through a little gap and then back along the inner wing to the oil filter. You have to remove the power steering pump and the alternator to allow enough room to jiggle the pipes out and of course there's manky oil constantly dripping like chinese water torture

[aaronjb]

Ahh, my favourite.. I'll definitely do those over my friends pit.. I'm used to ending up covered in oil when I'm in there anyway (engine oil, gearbox oil, diff oil.. and very rarely from my car!) 

Did you get the new hoses swaged onto the old fittings, or complete new hoses made up?

[Elite Pete]

Ahh, my favourite.. I'll definitely do those over my friends pit.. I'm used to ending up covered in oil when I'm in there anyway (engine oil, gearbox oil, diff oil.. and very rarely from my car!) 

Did you get the new hoses swaged onto the old fittings, or complete new hoses made up?

Yep

[aaronjb]

Damn, I was going to ask if I could borrow your old hoses to have them copied .. 

Guess I'll get new hoses put onto the old fittings, too, then

[Omegatoy]

Got them sorted today by a local chap for £30. It's taken all day to get them fitted (inbetween the rain) so all i've got to do is refit the alternator, power steering pump, auxiliary belt and viscous fan oh and I might as well do the oil filter before refilling with fresh oil just hope it stops raining long enough

far better than vaux then!!! glad it helped to sort them out!!