Just to close the loop on this part of the discussion, the truck does
currently live near the beach (eastern Long Island) but spent most of
its life fairly landlocked in Westchester County, but was near the water many,
many weekends, so salt air could be a factor. I doubt the car
was ever taken off road, but it did see its share of snow. It is only an
occasional use vehicle now, but that is a recent development.
I had it
towed to the dealer today and asked them to inspect the other lines; I
should know more about that tomorrow. I suggested that 7 years wasn't
very long for a hydraulic hose to last and the service guy fell back on
'whoever last worked on the brakes may have damaged them'. Not being my
car, there is not much I can do about that.
> From: dmscheidt@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:19:02 -0500
> To: wmc_st@xxiii.com
> CC: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Ford Explorer Brake Line Repair
>
> On Aug 6, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/6/2012 8:42 AM, Paul Parkanzky [and others] wrote:
> >> It wasn't long ago that we expected an eight or nine year old vehicle to
> >> be held together by hope and zip ties. Now, a piece fails and you're
> >> ready to call the lawyers? Cars have come a long way in the last 25
> >> years or so. I don't know if I can say the same about society.
> >
> > Sorry if I hit a nerve with some of you. I despise litigious jerks and
> ambulance chasing lawyers as much as anyone. I know a lot of you are into
> 1950s-ish LBCs and such. If that's your choice, fine. But all bets and
> expectations are off on reliability in that case.
> >
> > Major failure of a safety critical part on a sub-ten year old mainstream
> 21st century vehicle is unacceptable. Unless it somehow has crazy high
miles,
> or has been abused. I consider a brake line to wear with age, rather than
> mileage, but maybe I'm wrong on that.
> >
>
> Age is the big factor but salt can kill these right quick. So if it's
parked
> at a salt beach I'm not shocked at the failure. The other thing that kills
> these is mechanical damage. A bit of off roading, or changes to the
> suspension, can easily be at fault.
>
> I can't speculate w/o knowing the history and seeing the hose.
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