Power steering hose

[ste34thegreat]

Bimmers have been blessed with such lovely power steering systems I have found.

That having been said: mine is leaking.:stickoutt

The Power Steering Pump to Steering Box hose is leaking where the metal end and the rubber meet near the Box. At an alarming rate.

Hoses are around $200. Not going to happen on a college students' budget.

The car has self-leveling suspension.

Are these repairable at all? Silicone work? Take it to a hose shop?

Thanks in advance. I am such a n00b.:eek:

[shogun]

that power steering hoses are high pressure hoses, on the LAD system it is max. 140 bar, and the hoses are layed out for close to 200 bar. Take them to a shop for hydraulics, best is a truck repair shop. The old crimp metal pieces/sleeves have to be cut off with an angle grinder, then a new hose is cut to size and new crimp sleeves are added and pressed in a hydraulic press. Unexperienced shops might cut the sealing edge on the BMW pipes and then it leaks, so they cut the complete pipe off and hard solder a new pre-crimped hose on. But that is not the best way.
If you tell them it is for power steering, they might refuse to do it.
I have replaced all my power steering hoses and LAD hoses this way, much cheaper than new ones.

[uk525td]

yer, got to a hydraulics shop, they will want the hose in hand probably so they can re create a new one for you
did one on my audi once, audi wanted £125 iirc and hte shop charged me around £35

[ste34thegreat]

So I went to the 1 shop we have around here.

They immediately told me that they don't work on metric applications. :mad

*Rant on* WTF mates?! What kind of hose shop doesn't work on metric hoses? Granted, I live in a small farm town, but even tractors have metric-based hoses on them. Come ON people?! I spent the rest of the day ranting to random people why the USA should just switch over to the metric system and that Willamette Hose shop either has a terrible business model or was straight-up rude to me because I mentioned it was for a BMW. *Rant off*

Either way, I pulled a hose from a 93 non-LAD 525i. The hose is VERY close to the one that fits my car, but not exact, It was 10 bucks, so I thought I would give it a shot...thoughts? Just needs to be bent a bit to fit...