Thank you. I will look at the VIN number today and go to a neon siste and decode the VIN. I will let you know what I come up with.
GOD Bless
QUOTE=yogi_123rd]Connfused? - I've read the prior responses (LOL).
You can thank Chrysler for this one.
The 95 Neon (original design) used a fuel filter with 3 hoses off it. At some point in the future the car was redesigned with a different gas tank, a shield was added over the fuel filter, and the fuel filter was changed to only have two hoses. By your description, and from a previous poster's, it sounds like these changes were not done in the same year's production. Some factories were still putting in the older parts.
I know there are other parts on the car which have two seperate part numbers (clutch and clutch cable for one). It depending on what factory the car was made at as to what parts went into the car.
If you have the VIN number of the car, the correct part can be deturmined. The VIN infomation contains the factory id the car was made at.
Auto Zone (or other parts suplliers), may have only one part listed for a particular year. They still probably have part you need listed under a different year. The Chrysler parts dept will get you the correct part (becuase they knoe of the multiple listings) but most likely will ask you for the VIN so as to get you the correct one (at a substancially marked up dealer price).
Now specific to your problem - Are you sure your car is a 96 and not a 95? There are online sites that show how to decode a VIN.
I strongly suspect that the fuel filter for a 95 (I bought one of these at Autozone recently) is the one you want because it will have three hoses.
You gotta love Chrysler.[/quote]