No not smarter just a couple years older! I will look at ours this weekend and try to understand if it can be an alignment issue or something like that. I would also measure the wall thickness of the hose you have and I can dig up some old BMW radiator hoses to see if someones Six Sigma Green belt project led them down a stupid path............or.............maybe with the global market these things are coming out of China! Don't laugh Ford asked for a quote for some brake pads from us but only wanted them from our Chinese plant!!!