Colored hoses, Are they still available? Or has anyone tried dying a hose? Options

[TonyA]

Maybe i ma crazy but are these available anywhere, or has anyone ever attempted to bleach and dye a hose?

[wonkipop]

out of interest, does anyone know if the 1.8s originally had coloured hoses.
or did they switch to uncoloured hoses with those?

i think, and i mean i think, because it could just be you want to see it, that the vacuum lines on my distributor looked vaguely green still, before i replaced them last year, but it might be because i wanted to see green. if it was there it was so faded it was grey i saw green in. the rest of the lines were faded grey. and as far as i remember even when i bought the car they were grey color (31 years ago). i don't think any lines were replaced before i got the car in 89. but again maybe my memory is wrong. coloured lines were not something i knew about back then. they might have been a very faded red i thought was grey.

red as a color in any form, paint etc, fades fastest of all colours.

as to availability off the shelf, when you go to porsche themselves, where we sourced the new replacement hoses, its just black (or dark grey) hose. we went to porsche to get them given we are in aus - turned out to be easiest and was surprisingly, good value.

[StarBear]

out of interest, does anyone know if the 1.8s originally had coloured hoses.
or did they switch to uncoloured hoses with those?

i think, and i mean i think, because it could just be you want to see it, that the vacuum lines on my distributor looked vaguely green still, before i replaced them last year, but it might be because i wanted to see green. if it was there it was so faded it was grey i saw green in. the rest of the lines were faded grey. and as far as i remember even when i bought the car they were grey color (31 years ago). i don't think any lines were replaced before i got the car in 89. but again maybe my memory is wrong. coloured lines were not something i knew about back then. they might have been a very faded red i thought was grey.

red as a color in any form, paint etc, fades fastest of all colours.

as to availability off the shelf, when you go to porsche themselves, where we sourced the new replacement hoses, its just black (or dark grey) hose. we went to porsche to get them given we are in aus - turned out to be easiest and was surprisingly, good value.

@wonkipop Being an original 1.8 owner, the only colored lines on mine are green, to/from the vacuum canister. No red hoses. If you'd like, I could post a pic.