So my upper radiator hose is starting to leak on my 06 Acura TL and I have both radiator hoses sitting around to go on for replacement, but they’ve collected a little first inside from all the sitting it’s done. I’ve soaked the hoses overnight with some dawn platinum in a big bucket of water. But there’s still a little dirt residue that I can wipe off with a wet paper towel on the edge of the inside of the hose even after spraying them down from the inside afterwords. Will it hurt my cooling system/radiator if there’s a little dirt residue on the inside walls of the hoses? Or should I just buy new ones. Thank you
Get new hoses, flush and refill your cooling system to get the crud out. It's been 15 years.
Yeah you’re right. I’ve only done a radiator drain and fill ever since I got it with 95k. now it’s at 143k.I was just wondering if the hoses would be good since I already planned to do a flush. Thanks again
They'll be fine. That dust is nothing compared to the sludge that's already in the cooling system. Good luck.
Just rinse them off. They'll be fine.
ok I misread your question. I thought you had new hoses sitting around but they're not.
Don't bother with cleaning. It's not worth the trouble! You have a 15 year old vehicle so just replace them.
IMHO
If you're going to take them off and with 48k miles on them, put new ones on and put the old ones in the trunk.
