<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">you're kidding, right? any polyalkylene glycol ether based brake fluid (3/4/5.1) will harm paint. being synthetic or not has nothing to do with it.Originally posted by Ragnar:
That stuff looks pretty good Mr.Gix, maybe I don't need synthetic. I did find that Motul makes a fully synthetic DOT4 or long-life 5.1 that I may try, but the boiling points are slightly lower. I do like the fact that the stuff isn't a threat to all my new, ungodly expensive, plastic.![]()
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">No I wasn't kidding at all, thats why I am trying to learnyou're kidding, right? any polyalkylene glycol ether based brake fluid (3/4/5.1) will harm paint. being synthetic or not has nothing to do with it.
silicone based brake fluids (dot 5), on the other hand, will not harm paint, but it has other disadvantages.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">No I wasn't kidding at all, thats why I am trying to learnOriginally posted by Ragnar:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> you're kidding, right? any polyalkylene glycol ether based brake fluid (3/4/5.1) will harm paint. being synthetic or not has nothing to do with it.
silicone based brake fluids (dot 5), on the other hand, will not harm paint, but it has other disadvantages.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">no, what i was saying was that you seemed to be under the impression that it (i assume you were referring to motul 600 which is a dot 4 synthetic) wouldn't harm paint, but in reality it'll eat your paint just as well as a non-synthetic dot 4.Originally posted by Ragnar:
Are you saying that the stuff that Motul is calling Synthetic is not?