A year 2001 limo?
I’m really pi$$ed that GM didn’t use stainless steel brake lines. I wonder if Ford had the same problem.
> I’m really pi$$ed that GM didn’t use stainless steel brake
> lines. I wonder if Ford had the same problem.
I think the standard these days are aluminum.
No rust, but still a soft metal that does oxidize, only slower than steel.
I replaced the brake lines in my 02 Silverado last month. They just crumbled from the rust. The driver probably jammed the brakes as hard as he could and a line broke from the pressure
“I’m really pi$$ed that GM didn’t use stainless steel brake lines. I wonder if Ford had the same problem.”
So far as I know, no auto mfr. uses stainless steel for brake lines. Seems to me that you would have had the underside of a 2004 pickup inspected for this kind of a problem. I find your comment to be unbelievable since all vehicles from years even before 2004 have two separate braking systems and a double master cylinder just to make sure that any brake line or other hydraulic failure would result in only half the braking being compromised.
I grew up driving brakeless vehicles. I hauled oil rigs where the trucks had to depend on downshifting to stop, as when loaded the brakes simply did nothing. I drove a company pickup once where only the left front brake worked. Step on the brakes too hard and that wheel would grab and spin the truck around.
Where I am going with this, is what I’ve learned. That is to always drive like the brakes might fail. When approaching an intersection, start slowing down way before the actual need. On icy roads, where I know the brakes won’t work, I look ways to avoid a rear end collision, such as steering off the road. It’s called defensive driving.
One of my pet peeves is watching a car approach an intersection where they have to stop, and do not slow down or apply brakes until they absolutely have to. Younger people are most apt to do this. Whenever I see this happening, even if I have the right of way, I take my foot off the gas and put it on the brake pedal to decrease reaction time if they do not stop.
Two days ago I had a green light, yet a young man looked right at me, pulled his hood up, looked away from me and walked right out into the traffic. Being alert, I stopped for him. He had a very defiant look on his face, as he was one of those raised during the obama years to think of themselves as victims of racial hatred. I think this guy was willing to get hit just to prove his brainwashing to be true.
Chevy/GMC trucks/SUVs notorious for break lines rusting out, especially at the ABS module under driver side rail. I’ve know of 10-12 to have the issue and loose braking. Factory lines were not stainless...also they didn’t use stainless lines for the transmission or fuel lines, so those also fail.