Bulges in hydraulic hoses

[Ovair]

Originally Posted by polkatronron

I have a 2011 360 and all of my hoses are Black and I hve been keeping an eye on them but there is no problem...does anyone else have black hoses.

Yeah, my 2011 337 has only black hoses. Phew.

[fbconsults]

I have a 2011 378TS and several of the orange hoses are blistered and one is leaking. About half of the hoses are orange and the other half are black. Back to the dealer again!!

Happy Trails, Forrest

[fbconsults]

Talked to the dealer today, made an appointment for next week. He is going to try and get FR to authorize replacing them with hoses made locally for the dealer. If so, they will be better quality than the OM.

[fbconsults]

Dealer said FR refuses to authorize local replacement hoses and insists on sending replacement (orange) hoses from factory. Just hope we get them all replaced before warranty expires in Feb 2012.

Happy Trails, Forrest

[Ovair]

My brother just bought a used 373 with bulging orange hoses. I had told him about the bulging hoses because of this thread. He hasn't actually "received" the unit from the dealer (yet), but the dealer is replacing his hoses.
He should pick it up this weekend.

[fbconsults]

My dealer and FR have talked, and they are replacing all of the orange lines (8) with new orange lines. According to FR these are higher quality lines and should not experience the blistering problemss the old ones did. We shall see.

Forrest

Happy Trails

[Harleydriven]

Thanks for update on hoses, our 378 is now 9 mos. old, just had hoses inspected at dealer an all good to this point,they use multiple suppliers for hoses as explained to me by technician, hopefully we have good ones, will inspect again before 12 mos. Getting the Berkshire bug tho now that there putting a fireplace in them.

[Burr Rabbit]

We have a 2010 379 that is out of warranty. I just checked and we too have blistered orange hose throughout the coach. I will contact FR but I am not hopeful that they will warranty. Just curious, has anyone gotten an estimate of total cost to replace the 8 orange hoses?

Thanks for the help and for the information in this thread. This is a great forum!!!

[slycub]

I just had suspension air bags installed yesterday on my 2011 378ts and installer noticed the blistering on my orange hoses. My unit is under warranty but the garage told me it's an $1,100 job to replace all the orange hoses if you have to pay for it.

[Harleydriven]

interesting an thanks, i just had a one year check up an mine are ok, so you must have a extended warranty ? Did the air bags meet your expectations ?