check this aos thread out ...

[Homeoboxter]

Interesting tread, interesting approach. If I understand correctly, this guy didn`t do anything but made the AOS membrane more easily accessible. How often do you have to replace the AOS anyway?

[Qingdao]

Originally Posted by Homeoboxter

Interesting tread, interesting approach. If I understand correctly, this guy didn`t do anything but made the AOS membrane more easily accessible. How often do you have to replace the AOS anyway?

Mine went out after I'd owned the car for 20k and about a year.

I don't get the "solution". Its not too terrible to replace the AOS. You do kinda cut up your hand a little on that top engine bay area, but if it fails at most every 20k its not like the end of the world. IIRC rock auto had it for like $40 or something; so it wasn't really expensive either.

[piper6909]

Originally Posted by Qingdao

IIRC rock auto had it for like $40 or something; so it wasn't really expensive either.

I'm anticipating an AOS replacement sometime soon. Which one did you go with? The SKP or the URO Parts?

[Homeoboxter]

Originally Posted by Qingdao

Mine went out after I'd owned the car for 20k and about a year.

I don't get the "solution". Its not too terrible to replace the AOS. You do kinda cut up your hand a little on that top engine bay area, but if it fails at most every 20k its not like the end of the world. IIRC rock auto had it for like $40 or something; so it wasn't really expensive either.

Yeah, I don`t get it either. I`ve read somewhere here that the original AOS lasts much longer than the aftermarket ones. The genuine units sell for around $100 on ebay. My car I think has the original and has 100k in it. I put 100k miles in our family car in about 10 years, and this is a fun car for the weekends for many of us, so what`s the big deal?