Hose Clips damaging hoses?

The advert does not show how the clip is intended to be used. Maybe you could post a link to a picture showing this.

I think a clip like that would be used to hold solid plastic components in place.

That really doesn?t look like a hose clip. For a start, it?s not fully circumferential so can?t compress a hose evenly all the way round.

It *could* be a retaining clip for two rigid pipes that use an o-ring to seal the two parts I guess but we really need photos.

Tim

This video clip shows it at 2m.38s in from the start.

It shows a conventional screw hose clamp, not what it illustrated in the eBay ad.

Tim

Sorry, wrong video clip. Here's a much clearer *still* image:

Those kind of clips are *supposed* to look like that, though! Perhaps the seal inside (if there is one) has failed. Are you seeing any oil spray around the area at all? --

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What goes into the hole with a clip? Do you have a picture?

Yes! What does that indicate?

Soz for the delay; had to borrow someone else's web host. Here's the best picture I could take. The hose on top just gets in the way of what I'm actually trying to show: the union beneath it. The clip just joins one section of hose to another which feeds the intercooler.

On one of my vehicles I have a hose with clips like that either end. The hose is solid, ie not flexible, and the clips are for retention in a groove in the pipe the "hose" fits onto.

I wouldn't really call it a hose, as in my case it's a 'pipe'.

when I have had such Its been a hidden split in the turbo hose - just replace it. feel around with fingers...not a lot of pressure - ordinary hose clips are fine

Okay, so that?s not a hose clip, it?s a retaining spring clip on a rigid pipe. I would think that the seal will be down to O-rings. That clip doesn?t compress or ?eat into? a hose.

Tim

I suspect there is a plastic bit on the end of the male pipe but I can't claim to be able to see that in the picture as it is inside the female part. You likely need a new pipe.