VXR8 brake fluid and coolant change needed?

[SteveMJ]

Hi

As I'm due a 60,000 miles service I was thinking about getting the brake fluid changed. I think I had it done at about 35K miles in December 20122. Is it worth it? Which fluid?

I also changed the coolant then too, is that worth changing?

Ideas please.

Thanks, Steve

[fastbikes76]

Brake fluid change is advised every 2 years as its hydgroscopic (absorbs moisture) which can corrode braking components and decrease braking pressure.

Worth while having done.

[SteveMJ]

Yeah, thats why I'm thinking of changing it - approaching two years since last done. Not sure how much to buy? Is 1 Litre of brake fluid enough?

Steve

[fastbikes76]

SteveMJ said:

Yeah, thats why I'm thinking of changing it - approaching two years since last done. Not sure how much to buy? Is 1 Litre of brake fluid enough?

Steve

A litre should be plenty to flush through. I haven't looked up what's recommended for our cars yet but I usually use a DOT 5.1 like Motul, AP or ATE Super Blue

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATE-Super-Blue-Racing-Br...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AP-Racing-Formula-Dot-5-...

[ARAF]

fastbikes76 said:

SteveMJ said:

Yeah, thats why I'm thinking of changing it - approaching two years since last done. Not sure how much to buy? Is 1 Litre of brake fluid enough?

Steve

A litre should be plenty to flush through. I haven't looked up what's recommended for our cars yet but I usually use a DOT 5.1 like Motul, AP or ATE Super Blue

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATE-Super-Blue-Racing-Br...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AP-Racing-Formula-Dot-5-...

ATE Super Blue (or Gold) is DOT 4 equivalent, not 5.1 - though the boiling point exceed DOT 4 by quite a margin.

I think you'll need just over a litre (annoyingly).

[MatrixXXx]

on the VXR8 you need the blue ( or yellow so you can see the fluid change) stuff got mine from monkfish.

coolant OAT (pink) supposed to need 11 litres but I only got a gallon out of mine so premixed the 5 litres of coolant in a bucket with de-ionised water to compensate for the coolant still left in the heater circuit.

[neiljohnson]

Always worth doing you won't run your engine with dirty oil & the same
Philosophy applies to brakes
Coolant should last 5 years no problem but the mix is important as to much antifreeze can be counter productive

[vxr2010]

Well worth doing brake fluid no good if you can't stop , the mf stuff is very good I always used there one , and have put it in other cars too