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RE: Is silicon brake fluid unavailable in the UK!?

To: "'Dean Dashwood'" <ddashwoo@ect.enron.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Is silicon brake fluid unavailable in the UK!?
From: Davies William-qswi646 <QSWI646@email.mot.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:43:20 +0100

> You'll have to excuse my ignorance here - is DOT5.2 silicone? 
>  If it is, I saw
> some in Halfords, Slough last weekend, and I'd assume that 
> most branches stock
> the same stuff.  Didn't look too closely at it, because I 
> didn't think it was
> necessary just to get a few bubbles out of the clutch, and I 
> went for the
> cheaper DOT4.
> 

Just as well you did - it's inadvisable to mix silicone and conventional
brake fluids. Mixing DOT 3 and DOT 4 is OK, though DOT 3 is capable of
damaging natural rubber seals, particularly those fitted into "our" braking
systems when they were new. 
        Bill Davies.

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