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Got forced off the road by an idiot on an S bend, ending up with my CTi nearly on its side half in a roadside ditch. Fortunately I hadn't been going that fast myself, so not too much damage to the car. That was in May, and I'm still waiting to hear from my insurers re the repair. Anyway, I've thought it was using petrol more than usual, and begun to notice smell of petrol. Before driving off the other day, I looked underneath and saw petrol dripping. Jacked it up, got underneath, and it was one of the hoses, needless to say the outlet, no the return, coming down from the pump in the tank. Apart from the odd bit of grass in the pipe clips, there's no real damage in that area underneath, yet the hose was leaking at the side of where it curves to meet the steel pipe running along the underside of the floor plan. The interesting thing is, there's no obvious tear or rip in the hose, but the hose is starting to perish, and I think the jarring it received has simply prompted it to give way. The hose is dated 1989, so I shall replace both...a metre of the correct "carburant" hose was only €6.56, so a job worth doing. The stainless hose clips are literally clips, with care you can just spring them open. To close them, a pair of narrow pincers is the perfect tool! Anyway.....our cars are getting older, so worth checking these hoses, they're cheap and easy enough to replace!