Are you sure that hose is the leak? The water outlet it's attached it is the most common leak point in the cruze. It could be the plastic that's goin and just running down the hose.
I'd suggest buying the water outlet and the hose coming out the top while you're at the parts store. You can always return them if you don't install them.
I appreciate the heads up! Sadly the hose is ripped and barely hanging on… all my coolant POURED out of this hose and I ran some water thru it and it all came out there. I’m probably gonna buy a new water outlet just to be safe after seeing everyone have problems with it as well as thermostat.
Do you happen to have a link to a write up on this perhaps? New Cruze owner and looking to start replacing plastic parts with metal ones. This one looks easy enough to DIY actually
Here is a video to the same fitting fitted to the Sonic.. Its almost the same except has a 90 degree brass fitting instead of a straight. The only relevant thing these are precision machined to size (unlike the plastic ones) and come with two O rings instead of one (extra leak protection) and the two nested plastic fittings are combined into the single fitting, thus eliminating one of the joints
My part store wanted like 40 bucks for this, I found a pre molded hose for like a honda or something they had in the back and I cut to fit and works lol
Lucky u seen it mine exploded while I was in the store lucky the worker screamed at me and said my car was steaming would have had a blown head gasket if not 😭
Mine was leaking at the tiny hose connected to the turbo. I ended up replacing that bent hose and the tiny hose. Apparently the OEM clamp loses it's tightness and then, because of all the pressure, it starts to leak. So I used 2 worm clamps on the tiny hose and same for the bended hose. So far 🤞 it's working.
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u/MorningMushroomcloud 2d ago
The GM part number is printed on the hose by the looks of it.