Mine lasted 386K miles before catastrophically failing. If I had an SS version l'll bet it would have sent me a text message on my smirkPhone to let me know it was about to fail.:-)

I just threw another plastic crackpipe in there and it was good to go.

BenT

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> On Jan 7, 2014, at 4:52 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
> 
> The plastic tower on my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile lasted 155k miles before it failed in a hose replacement.  So, I thought that was pretty good, and considering the price difference for metal versus plastic replacement, bought another one.  mcneely