[TR] brake fluid

Randall tr3driver at ca.rr.com
Thu May 31 13:06:49 MDT 2012


> but will
> Castrol/Girling LMA synthetic fluid still take the paint off the parts
> it touches?

Yes.  As Peter said, it is not actually any different than before, Castrol
(and other fluid manufacturers) have simply added the word "Synthetic" to
the label; apparently because many consumers believe that synthetic is
better.  But in fact, no brake fluid is based on petroleum at all, so they
are all "synthetic" and always have been, it just didn't say so on the label
before.

Besides, Castrol won a court case saying, in effect, that any petroleum
product that comes from a modern refinery is "synthetic" and can be sold as
such.


> also why would you not produce "new" spec parts.

Because if you update the specifications, you have to do expensive,
complicated tests to ensure that the new specification parts work under all
circumstances.  In addition, there is a significant additional legal
liability, in case someone claims that your new specifications are deficient
in some way.

Unless you have customers willing to pay many times the price (remember we
are a very limited market) for parts with updated specifications; it simply
does not make financial sense to do so.

-- Randall 


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