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NCT, advanced corrosion on brake line??

  • 23-04-2011 2:16pm
    #1
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭


    Car failed on Advanced corrosion on a brake line? So they cant find any other fault with my 10 yr old car.

    I went home to have a look at it, so I jacked the car up, ok so it looked like rust/corrosion, but only slight surface corrosion, mostly it was dirt/muck covering the pipe, which I rubbed off.

    I went back and they said oh if its pitted, when I insisted it was only slight corrosion and nothing like the advanced they said, told to sand it down and paint it and come back? so what is it? bad enough to fail but ok to sand down and paint??

    I dont fancy replacing the pipe as it looks like a bitch of a job and there is hardly anything wrong with it, as such I can see paying someone to this will cost an arm.

    Whats peoples experience with this, ok to sand and paint then do retest? If I do, am I likely to do retest and then be told to retest again,in peoples experience?

    edit the thing is its barely different to the othersides brake line that didnt fail?
    I'd like to get it sorted before june so i can get the last 2 yr NCT available to me.


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  • #2
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,375 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    It's not that expensive to get them done and you're guaranteed to pass. The effectiveness of the paint job will be subjective and you risk failing again and needing to test it next year too.


  • #3
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Merch


    so you reckon it wouldnt cost much to do? from what I read it seemed like people were saying at least 200-250 to replace the line even though it would only cost 20 to buy. It looks like an awkward enough job (for someone without a lift), with a lift it looks like it might be easier to route after taking off a few heat shields.
    I rang a place and they said they'd make it into the necessary shape, if I bring in the old one, Im assuming they make the ends on, thought they might have a template of a shape as I cant take it off and then get it to them??

    I was thinking it would be difficult enough to route already bent into shape, would you be able to do the bends yourself If I bought it in a straight length?


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