You can check the owner's handbook or the master cylinder to see what sort of brake fluid your vehicle requires. Both can tell you what your vehicle requires to function properly. A simpler option is to search for "brake fluid type" using your car's year, make, and model on a search engine like Google.
Always keep in mind that if your car requires a DOT 3, you can use a DOT 4. If your vehicle requires DOT 4, however, DOT 3 will not suffice. If your vehicle requires DOT 5 or DOT 5.1 tires, you must purchase those instead. It's crucial to understand that different types of brake fluid aren't always interchangeable.
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Brake Fluid Change
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Brake Fluid Change
Stay away from dot 5r1concepts wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 7:17 am You can check the owner's handbook or the master cylinder to see what sort of brake fluid your vehicle requires. Both can tell you what your vehicle requires to function properly. A simpler option is to search for "brake fluid type" using your car's year, make, and model on a search engine like Google.
Always keep in mind that if your car requires a DOT 3, you can use a DOT 4. If your vehicle requires DOT 4, however, DOT 3 will not suffice. If your vehicle requires DOT 5 or DOT 5.1 tires, you must purchase those instead. It's crucial to understand that different types of brake fluid aren't always interchangeable.
You can mix all other fluids but if you ever go to or from 5 it requires everything to be changed including the seals.
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Brake Fluid Change
The correct grades for E89s are either DOT 4 or DOT 5.1
These can be intermixed although its good practice to bleed the whole system
DOT 5 is not recommended for many reasons.. a good write up is here..
http://www.orthene.co.uk/bulletins/OTB002.pdf
These can be intermixed although its good practice to bleed the whole system
DOT 5 is not recommended for many reasons.. a good write up is here..
http://www.orthene.co.uk/bulletins/OTB002.pdf
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