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| ThankYouLord | Sun Jul 5, 2009 9:34 am |
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Don't ever put Dot 5 into a system that has had Dot 4 in - kiss your seals goodbye. Dot 5 is ok if every hydraulic component is new, including lines, but mix the two and it will eat everything in it's path. Taken from first hand, BITTER experience at high speed; one of the most frightening few minutes of my life. If you are lucky, it will pop on you the next day before you move off but it will not last very long before your pedal goes to the floor and laughs at you ! If you put Dot 5 into a brand new system, you are stuck with it for the life of the system. Dot 4 is great in a good system, Dot 5 only resists heat for longer, not more efficient in any noticeable way so on a road car you are losing nothing by using Dot 4. Bad, sticky brakes will generate more heat than they should so that will add to your Dot 4 becoming in-efficient. Most important thing you can look at is the pistons and how good the slide in and out of the bores. If they are bad, your brake is always working harder than it should have to and also is not releasing properly. A freshly overhauled set of 4 new calipers is a joy to drive on and will feel like a massive upgrade if your current brakes are old originals. For what they charge, a recon exchange caliper from a motorfactors is only 10 - 15 quid per caliper more than doing it yourself (I found this out by doing a BMW myself), plus the new ones from the motorfactors come back anodised. Paint these before you fit them with a nice porcelain paint and they will look great for years to come. New ones also come with new fittings and are a proper job - i THINK from memory, Fronts are 55 quid each and rears are 44 but that might be for a std 2.0 and it is a while since i priced these up - Andrew Page Factors were great when i dealt with them. best luck Edited by ThankYouLord, Sun Jul 5, 2009 9:36 am.
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| recommended brake upgrade - 16v · Brakes | |
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