By the fusing I meant that if you look at the other pipe barb fittings you can see they are part of the mold, when I was repairing mine it seemed that this particular barb was not part of the mold and was tacked on as a separate item. It only has a very thin area where the fitting is fused to the main body.

Looked silly to me. But as mine is functioning good albeit leaking a tiny bit Im not complaining because the new part is 500 greens.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)