Water Outlet/Upper Reservoir Hose replacement

Update as I did this repair myself and wanted to share the procedure as this part seems to fail a lot. I have a 2012 Cruze, and needed BOTH the upper coolant reservoir hose and the water outlet for my repair. The connections have been revised on the hose and water outlet. It's a much better design, but you can't use the new style hose on the older water outlet. The part numbers and approximate online costs for each part are as follows:

13251447 New Revision Upper Coolant Reservoir Hose, $12 online
25193922 New Revision Water Outlet, $23 online

You no NOT need to buy any gaskets as the outlet comes with the gasket. It's a VERY easy job, you just need e-torx sockets for the bolts on the water outlet. Start by disconnecting the upper charge pipe from the throttle body, unplugging the IAT sensor in the pipe, and move the pipe out of the way. Then disconnect the coolant temp sensor. Remove the 4 hoses to the water outlet, 3 e-torx fasteners, and pull the water outlet. Have a bucket ready as coolant will come out.

Make sure the old water outlet gasket is off, clean the mating surfaces and reverse the procedure. Should take 30 mins tops, 45 with ample coolant system bleeding.

Good luck.

Cooling systems are not new, neither are coolant reservoirs, or recovery tanks, or whatever they are calling them now. Liked them much better when radiators were made out of brass, brass could be repaired and cleaned with acid, plastic and aluminum are strictly throwaway items and have to be replaced. So who is saving money with this crap, certainly not he consumers, but the OEM's are, and why isn't this reflected on the sticker price?

Coolant lines were standard size neoprene hoses that you could buy by the foot, could use conventional screw clamps, but this all changed when they went to plastic, had to use spring clamps. Now all specialized parts.

How about this with a vehicle slightly over fives years old, speaking from experience, need a specialized part and your dealer says no longer available. And by law, only required to supply these parts five years after the date of manufacture. So you either end up pitching this POS or chasing all over the country trying to find that part.

Never use to be this way, but is now, unless you know how to make your own parts. 75 bucks to replace a defective PCV? Use to be less than a couple of bucks when conventional hoses were used, just another example.

JoBivins30 said:

I have the opposite problem. We changed our water outlet and then I had to order a new inlet hose, but the fitting on the inlet hose will not fit the new water outlet. What is the part number for the inlet hose for new water outlet?

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Hi, did you ever figure this out? I just replaced the water outlet on my 2012 (part: Dorman 902-846, which it says is the OE cross part for GM 25193922, which is the one recommended above by the originator of this post), and I can't seem to get a good connection from the inlet hose into the new water outlet. Coolant is still leaking from that spot... so I assume I probably need to buy a new hose to match the new outlet, but I've seen some conflicting information regarding what the proper hose to acquire is. Any advice anyone can give is much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm thinking possibly either of these ones, but they don't look exactly the same to me based on the pictures: