Has anybody been able to find an actual store that sold vacuum hoses instead of just online retailers?

I want to pick one up today, and it needs to be done before Sunday. I go back to school, while my sister will trash this car.

I have some in the engine that looks like it is on its way out, and I just want to do what I can to make everything run as best it can.


I called a MB dealer and they did not have any, advance auto parts didn't know what I was talking about.

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1986 300SDL 313K

Where are you located? I have tons lying in my garage that were pulled from a parts car.

Any pick n pulls near where you live?

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

You must mean the hard plastic line? Most auto parts stores only carry the rubber stuff, which is perfectly fine--just doesn't last as long.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I am in Bowie, MD between dc and Baltimore

There weren't any Mercedes at the junkyard nearby, but the junkyard was great when i had a 91 grand caravan

I had the opposite luck with finding the hoses. Only hard lines, not the rubber ones.

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1986 300SDL 313K

A truck shop will have that size and type of line. It's used for lots of stuff on trucks.

Hi
I bought mine at Autozone. Just take a piece in and show them. Any parts store should have it - it not just an MB item.

What's hard to come by are the 3 & 4 way connectors. But even with those many parts stores have plastic Ts etc that can be adapted.

You don't want to get hose & fittings from the junkyard anyway - they deteriorate with heat & age
Good Luck,
Joseph

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Take a sample in to any good auto parts store.. I do Kragen personally.. everybody has their fav spot. I'm sure there's one near you.

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1982 240D 4spd, 327,000mi

If somplace like Autozone does not have it try NAPA.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel