[BDCCruze]

Are you tuned or stock?

 

[MOTO13]

My car is 100% stock.

 

[MP81]

You said it's the flexy bit that broke? Could just use a silicone elbow at that point?

 

[MOTO13]

Yeah...IDK what to do. Until I take it off, it's all speculation on how to fix it. It gets pretty **** hot on that pipe and hose. So silicone or something like that has to be able to take a lot of heat. That's the pipe directly from the turbo to the intercooler. The intake side after the intercooler to the intake would not really be much of a heat problem.

 

[MOTO13]

Well, apparently they found the part and will be installing it tomorrow.

QUESTION...should I have the other pipe also replaced at the same time? Meaning the cool side of the intercooler to the intake?

 

[MP81]

I don't think their failure really correlates - the hot side really doesn't tend to break, at least not that I recall - it usually seems like its the cold side that explodes out of nowhere. Our Cruze was a different kind of circumstance because, you know, tree. But even then, that cold-side hose didn't break until just before the car was about done.