There Are plastic cooling lines from the fill reservoir to the radiator and similar clip on flexible air breather hoses on the engine here and there

Has anyone successfully replaced them with something else that's not so "delicate"? Attaching the ends with those clip on systems seems to be the biggest issue, otherwise it could have been done with flanges aluminium piping.
Interested in what people have done.& How.
Regards
Peter

 

The replacements are inexpensive enough -- why bother?

 

Because I despise plastic on cars

Perer

 

Half the car is plastic. I'm not sure why you would take a stand on this specific item.

 

I am curious about this too... I just killed my second one of these damn lines while working on the pulleys. They are awfully brittle and stupidly designed imo. Also, I apparently bought the last replacement set whenever I broke these the first time and now I can't find any anymore in my entire country so that's fun.

I suppose I'll just replace it with some hose and a hoseclamp. Should work in theory. I'll report back with measurements once done.

 

It is true...twenty year old plastic lines do get brittle. So does rubber.

 

The main difference is that a rubber coolant line is easy to replace with any generic hose and a clamp while this very specific piece of plastic with it's weird clip structure is very hard to get by. But I'm sure Jaguar engineers didn't have me in mind working on this car 26 years down the road