For a 2001 Discovery...There is a cracked hose on the passenger side (see picture). What is this hose for? I haven't gotten a shop manual yet, but could this be related to the cruise control? It doesn't work.



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Is this in the UK? Because that is a vaccum line hose (it is part of the cruise control operation), and in the States it is on the drivers side--passenger side if a right hand drive vehicle. It is a very cheap part, any auto store will have it. You can take those hoses off of all the connection (make note of where they all connected), then take it to a store, have them give you like 10-12 feet of a vaccum line hose the same size, go cut the hose, and hook it to all the connections. This will let your cruise control work again too (I am guessing that if the hose is that bad, your cruise control does not work, right?)...good luck, not a part to worry all night about!

 

Thanks for the reply, I've seen other posts saying cracked hoses are common with the cruise control so I appreciate the confirmation.

Nope, I'm in Georgia and (from what I know) the vehicle was owned in Florida. Is the passenger-side installation only on UK vehicles? Would they vary it just for export to the States?

 

hmm...you know, maybe BMW just mucked with the engine layout on the D2, lol, I have a D1, and its on the drivers side (the throttle assembly (where your pic is plugging in at), the pump, and everything else is on the drivers side for me)....who knows, its a Rover! I just find it odd that BMW would 're-engineer' such a small part of the engine, I bet someone got paid 20 bucks an hour to layout those lines in their new positions! ahha, well great tho, its always good when you find an issue and realize it WONT cost 700 dollars--seems that everything I find is the like the latter there, always hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.....