Re: Brake Lines

[Joe Mann <joem@pswtech.com>]

3 years??  If you check your warranty manual, you'll find that one of last
included free maintenance routines is to change the break fluid.  Your
dealer should have done this before you 2y/24k warranty was up.

Joe
95 GLX

SWHARRIS@earthlink.net wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> After getting home today from the VWCOLA meeting at Timmons (which by
> the way was great. The new bettle would be cool with the 1.8T Quatro), I
> decided to start the install of my brake lines (braided stainless).  I
> opened the box to discover 6 brake lines 2 long, 2 short (male one end
> female the other), and 2 more short ones (female both ends).  I could
> only find 4 rubber lines on my car (95).  Am I over looking 2?  Do the
> later cars have 2 more somewhere and they just supplied the extra just
> incase I had a later car?  Anyone done this install?
>
> BTW I'm using the ATE super blue fluid.  Pain in the ass to purge all
> the old crap.  I was way over do....pushing 3 years.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Harris
> 1995 4X4 GLX :-)