What brake fluid i should go for?

What brake fluid i should go for?

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vrooom

Original Poster:

3,763 posts

268 months

Tuesday 13th April 2004
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Im renewing my disc, and braided hoses. and am wondering what kinds of brake fluid I should get?

Sick of it fading alots.

Jay

jeffriesmullet

134 posts

243 months

Tuesday 13th April 2004
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i would just use dot 4

Cooperman1

116 posts

244 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Dot 4 should be fine for normal driving. If it's not then your brakes must be getting seriously hot.
I always use AP600 in all my rally cars, but it's about £15 for half-a-litre, so with bleeding ALL, repeat ALL of the old fluid out in order to change to AP600 you can easily use up to 1 litre, so very expensive and you nedd real justification to spend this much. It also needs changing more often than Dot 4. to need AP600 you would be fading normal pads, like EBC 'Green out quite quickly and be on carbon-metallic.
I hope this helps.