Re: Question about steel bottle

["daveswingle2" <dswingle@xxxx>]

Actually that brings up another question. It is often stated that it 
is important to change the header bottle becaust the plastic one 
fails. I've seen dozens/hundreds(?) of these, and they often look 
pretty bad (yellow, "crazed"), but I've never actually heard first-
hand of someone who's had one fail under operation. This system is 
commonly used on other euro cars of the same era (notably BMW/SAAB) 
and it is not common on those cars to consider this a must-replace 
item. 

Just wondering if anyone on the list has really, first-hand, seen one 
of these fail. 

Dave Swingle (Yes - changed mine to a SS bottle too - and still have 
a perfectly good but slightly yellow plastic one around here 
somewhere)

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx> wrote:
> The "standard" metal bottle sold by the venders comes in S/S or 
> aluminum. It is approximatly the same size. ---

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> I replaced mine not for looks but because the origional header 
bottle 
> ages and cracks.
> David Teitelbaum
> vin 10757