Good morning Jag fam ? i have a question. my upper radiator hose is hosed and i called the dealer and they told me that the upper hose is one assembly @ 120.00 .. sounds like i'm getting hosed b/c the plastic tubing isn't bad just the hose. is there a way around this ?

 

Don, through http://www.jaguarparts.com, they have the hose for $104, but then you would have S&H to get it to you. Might save you a few bucks, but then you are also waiting a few days to get the hose.

The other thing that you can look into is getting a few small pieces of hose and then simply cutting out the rubber pieces from your current hose and only reusing the plastic pieces. But, by the time you find the hoses that will work for your application, buy those, piece it all together, you will probably be back up around $100.

As much as I hate to say it, this is probably one of the few times that I am going to promote using your local dealership. Granted, check out what some of the other sponsors here at the site can do for you and go from there. I know Ken@britishparts.com should be able to help you out with this.

 

Sad to say buddy but that's the way Jag has done with a lot of their parts, combining them.
I just lucked out in my situation. I needed to replace the small hose right next to the upper radiator hose, the one that goes back to the recovery tank. It also comes it 2 pieces, the one connecting to the radiator is a molded one which connect to a common long piece that goes to the tank and runs along the fender, but fortunately these can be ordered separately. Of course the piece I needed was the molded one because the engineers had placed a wire-tie anchor right next to it and the sharp end had worn a pin hole in the hose. Needless to say I'm not real happy with the engineers but I have removed the wire-tie as it was over kill anyway and it not really needed. That short piece of molded hose cost me $50 plus tax and took 5 days to get from Jaguar through a local dealership in Omaha.
So you're mostly stuck with getting what you're being offered from the dealership.

 

Yeah.. thats sucks. i really don't see the need to replace the WHOLE assembly if the hose is the only thing that needs replacing.