A Samco ancillery kit for a mk4 Rs Turbo.........

Count them.....1, 2, 3 pipes


The same kit, but by Roose.........

Lets count again 1, 2, 3, 4....7, 8, 9!!!!


The oil return from Turbo to sump alone is £40 from Fords

No price for the Samco kit, but the Roose kit is around £139.00

AND IIRC Samco take 6-9 weeks for a one off set to be made............

Roose can do any of these colours: blue, red, black yellow or metalic silver and deliverd to your door in...................






Wait for it.................









(IIRC) 48hours!!

How good is that I got some saving to do tho

 

That looks SUPERB!!!

 

I stand corrected..........

24hours if paid by cash/card

Now thats good service

 

That is excellent, ESPECIALLY considering the oil return

 

 

I can see where all the moneys gone into samco's kits.

Samco background - Nice silvery professional looking.

Roose background - Kitchen floor tiles

 

exactly the kit that i have, in the same rather over the top tacky bright shade of red too.

great products, great service, but funny accent on the phone

 

Trust you

Still dont explain the 6-9 week turn around, i mean the kids summer school holidays aint that long

 

Roose kits are far to superior to Samcos! I have recently changed to them

 

Fair play, thats impressive

 

who sells roose hoses online ?

 

We got the ancillary kit for MrsFrog's 2wd, never quite realised how many of the little hoses there were until we started putting them all in

 

Ive just bought a bastard oil return hose for 40 quid from ford!

 

On the quality front i dont honeslty believe the roose are any better, both are excellent products, samco hoses are fantastically well made.

roose just wins in terms of his knowledge of the applications (well for my cossie he did anyway, made me a lovely mix-match of rwd/4wd/rs500 hoses exactly to suit my needs) and he wins on the product stock and delivery times.

but there is NOTHING wrong with the quality of samco hoses, they are a fantastic product.

 

I noticed on the boost how much thicker and stronger they are. I have split 2 Intercooler to Turbo ones before but the roose seem ok

 

 

You can order Roose hoses from me.

Difference between Roose (on left) and samco (on right).

 

Blimey they are thicker

AFAIK no-one sells'em on-line, you have to ring then directly.

 

anyone got a website/ contact details for them?

 

and heres where you tell me thay dont make them for a 2.9 xr4x4

 

order them from stretch, or 01522 787187 to talk to them direct

 

And you would be correct. Did try and sort a batch of them but didnt get the interest needed to cover cost of tooling etc.

 

well you wouldent get much intrest on here theres only a few xr4x4 owners

o well i will just take all my ones off and paint them

 

Now them look like some cool hose kits come on stretch tell me you do a set for the XR2 pleaseeeeeeeeeeee

 

Phone and speak to Paul Roose on 01522 787187

I'm sure he can sort something out

 

I put posts on interford and the XR owners club board mate still no interest.Where else would you like me to try. I even had a set of original hoses to copy for him.

 

Sorry mate not as of yet.See wot interest you can get and maybe i can sort something.

 

Stretch is right, every time a hoses topic comes up the XR4 owners say they want hoses. Then someone goes to the trouble of trying to setup a bulk order to get the tooling made and everyone goes quiet again.

 

Ok cheers stretch i'll see what interest i can drum up how many people do i need to get before you'll consider it as i think there is a few on here that are interested

 

Stretch cant say i have see any of ya posts on the other bb's m8

have you tryed the sierra owners club bb

 

I think you would need around 10 sets to be considered to cover the cost of tooling etc.And if you could supply a set of standard hoses to copy would be excellent.

 

Ok chap i will ask about. I beleive someone here was willing to send their hoses off to use for copys

 

Try these links then mate and notice date.

http://www.xrstyle.co.uk/forums/inde...showtopic=7075
http://www.interford.co.uk/forums/sh...ight=group+buy

 

strange comparing a company like samco with roose....samco is 100 times bigger i guess.......so a lot busier......so not that strange is will take a while longer to deliver the goods......

 

hmmm, yes that's strange, as they're bigger they have more people working for them, producing more goods quicker, ...

and they would be able to afford to have some stock,
as a small company would have a bigger problem putting cash out to get raw material to build more stock...

 

You only need a slight mod to get them on an XR2 a la my old 'bay about 3 years ago...

 

Dave which samco kit is that? The Roose hoses do look a lot better though

 

You only need a slight mod to get a certain Ford kit to make it fit the XR2 a la my old 'bay about three and a half years ago...



PS. Check the Samco profile in this months PF Mag. Their hoses are pressure tested and on our visit a standard boost hose withstood 60bar (870psi) before it popped, they are guaranteed to 10 bar though so not sure many T3 or T34 turbos will be bursting any through too much boost, do you?

Also the thicker the hose is the less flexible it is and the heavier it is, if they are made right it's no advantage.

Oh, and you don't deal direct with Samco if your joe public it's one of their dealers you'd be talking about so try another dealer if your usual one doesn't have the hose you want in stock... Just an idea lol

 

Ok cheers Dave. Is that aswirl pot i see coming off the thermostat housing

 

Which is why everyone is turning to Roose and why Samco are sooo expensive.

Your just paying and getting agro from a middle man