Mr car has stainless steel braided brake lines (I previously upgraded from rubber ones also using some decent brake fluid). My (main dealer) garage has replaced 1 of them with a rubber hose as they said one of them was too tight and would fail an MOT?
To pass it's MOT, along with other work I needed done (main brake lines), I went with their advice after having hassle last 2 years (my local independent specialist said it was fine and passed it's MOT when my main dealers would not, however I'm continuing to get it serviced at main dealers to keep FSH). But I am now wondering if this is safe?
I understand rubber brake lines can expand slightly whereas steel ones can not. So will this rubber hose not now be a major weak point of the braking system and being the only point where expanding is possible it could even make it dangerous?
In addition to my concerns, the travel of the brake pedal feels twice as much now and feels terribly spongy and less responsive, but it could be that they just need bled again as they didn't get all the air out the system, but really that's not acceptable when paying a lot of money to get them done...
To pass it's MOT, along with other work I needed done (main brake lines), I went with their advice after having hassle last 2 years (my local independent specialist said it was fine and passed it's MOT when my main dealers would not, however I'm continuing to get it serviced at main dealers to keep FSH). But I am now wondering if this is safe?
I understand rubber brake lines can expand slightly whereas steel ones can not. So will this rubber hose not now be a major weak point of the braking system and being the only point where expanding is possible it could even make it dangerous?
In addition to my concerns, the travel of the brake pedal feels twice as much now and feels terribly spongy and less responsive, but it could be that they just need bled again as they didn't get all the air out the system, but really that's not acceptable when paying a lot of money to get them done...