I agree, it must have been a bad batch or possibly mis-marked at Cohline.  I
have Cohline on my Westy I installed last year.  At Airhead/VWG they've been
carrying Cohline since 2006, but since Cohline's warehouse back east has
been out for most of the year, Airhead/VWG has Conti Hose on the shelf right
now.  With Cohline being out for so long, this may be the reason (bad
batch/mis-marked), but Airhead/VWG hasn't any reports of this from the
customers

Cohline only comes from Germany as far as I know.  Haven't seen any
counterfeit hoses of this type yet.
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
jim@airheadparts.com
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:27 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:

> You musta got a bad batch.
> I got mine from Autohausaz, and indeed it is Cohline.  Well,
> Contitech/Cohline...
> I have been using these for years and they still look like new.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Chris S
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:33 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: ALERT! Brand new fuel hoses failing!!!!
>
>  I bought a bunch of fuel injection hose from one of "our" online vendors.
> The FI hose becomes soft, swells, separates and starts leaking.  My hoses
> have been exposed to fuel for less than 1 week.   All the hoses are very
> soft now.  One failed.
>
>
>   - The name of the fuel line is COHLINE.
>   - If you bought and received COHLINE please CHECK YOUR FI hoses NOW!
>   -  If you are a vendor and carry COHLINE fuel injection line, test yours
>   to make sure it's safe to use.
>   - If you are about to buy FI line, make sure it's not COHLINE.
>
>
>
> I'm going to deal with the vendor separately and will allow them to deal
> with this issue on their own, hence no name will be given.
>
> --
> Chris S.
> Disclaimer: "Death and serious injury may occur"
>