shades
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steel brake lines
Why do car makers use steel brake lines over copper or stainless?
Had an MOT fail on tin top yesterday with coroded front brake line. Its only a 51 plate too, partly my fault for the fail for not checking, but
still considered it fairly new so didn't bother checking them in detail.
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Adrian
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nitram38
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| posted on 14/9/06 at 09:33 PM |
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Copper too soft and stainless too brittle/expensive?
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iank
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| posted on 14/9/06 at 09:46 PM |
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copper too expensive I suspect (kunifer alloy doesn't work harden like the pure copper ones can)
stainless... don't know, might fail in a bad way when it does go?
Don't some manufacturers use plastic coated steel these days?
Paying dealer prices to get them fixed on a 51 doesn't sound like much fun.
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 14/9/06 at 10:24 PM |
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Steel is cheaper, is easier to be fabricated on a CNC former (less springback)
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/9/06 at 10:39 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Steel is cheaper
No need for any other explanation! Just a few pennies saved on a car component can save rather large sums of money over a typical production run.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/9/06 at 08:18 AM |
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I used to have a Citroen BX (no, don't laugh) - every time I took it for a service the garage used to clean the miles of hydraulic pipes and
spray them with underseal. Although this obviously got added to the bill I was very grateful, as getting Citroen hydraulics fixed is horribly
expensive! I never had an MOT failure due to corroded pipes...
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shades
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| posted on 15/9/06 at 04:43 PM |
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quote:
Paying dealer prices to get them fixed on a 51 doesn't sound like much fun.
Nope not paying dealer prices... local garage doing it for the same price as a retest.
Suspected cost came into it...
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Adrian
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