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Originally Posted by shertex
Not all of us know as much about auto maintenance as you do...but we are eager to learn. Thus we ask questions that may seem basic to those who are more experienced and are very grateful for the advice we get. (Incidentally, the word is "incredible," not "incredulous;" if you find something incredible then it's the person, not the thing itself, that is incredulous.)
However, it may be of interest that I posed to the question to Rusty at buymbparts and his opinion was that, as long as the hoses are in good shape, it's fine to leave them. So apparently there is some difference of opinion even among those who have significant experience.
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I'm no auto repair expert. Far from it. I'm a novice DIY'er. That notwithstanding, I know that if I'm going to do any kind of work on my car I'm going to change rubber parts that are old. I'll do it just because they're there and just because I wouldn't want a failure and have to do the same job again because of it. That's not even mentioning the possibility of getting stranded on the side of the road because of it.
Additionally, hoses often deteriorate from the inside. So, they may look good on the outside, but are near their useful life on the inside.