Hoses - where?

[Byker28i]

I had a hose clip fail on the car, on the hose from the top of the rad to the water manifold.
No problem, 50p item, except the hose being old has deformed around the clip and now won't reseal fully.

Any idea where I can get new hoses from. I've found the ACT hose kits, but they're a lot of dosh and are blue. Blue hoses would look horrible in my engine bay.

Any idea where else to get hoses, or shall I just start ordering bespoke ones in red from someone like SFS, or viper? If so - anyone know the diameter and lengths off hand of the top rad hose (nearside) to water manifold?
Cheers

[billy no brakes]

Byker28i said:

I had a hose clip fail on the car, on the hose from the top of the rad to the water manifold.
No problem, 50p item, except the hose being old has deformed around the clip and now won't reseal fully.

Any idea where I can get new hoses from. I've found the ACT hose kits, but they're a lot of dosh and are blue. Blue hoses would look horrible in my engine bay.

Any idea where else to get hoses, or shall I just start ordering bespoke ones in red from someone like SFS, or viper? If so - anyone know the diameter and lengths off hand of the top rad hose (nearside) to water manifold?
Cheers

Act do them in other colours not just blue and black as well and you order single hoses too, might be worth giving them a call , I had change all the hoses to act ones and they all come to fit just a little triming here and there guess what I cut one that did not need cutting and when I realised it was too late and the worst part was it was the second to last one that I had to fit and it took me 4 hours to do the rest, you don,t want to know the rest but it will cost me £2000 it fix it

[ttmr]

£2000!!!!! for what? cooked head? ( thats a question not a recipe)

[Byker28i]

Brilliant - cheers all. I'll give Tim a ring.