NMNA:
NMNA:
In my 47 years of driving a vehicle, I've never once blown a brake line. In the past few days, I've seen several ads for cars or trucks that say the vehicle will be fine once you fix the blown brake line.
I've had a couple of hard line failures. It's such an easy fix you have to be 100% non-mechanical or lazy as berkeley to not repair it yourself before selling. Heck, if it was a rear line you could clamp it off with vice grips and most test drivers wouldn't even know it wasn't working till later.
I've had three cars rust through their brake lines. I think your experience in SC is pretty different to those of us north of the salt line.
dculberson wrote: I've had three cars rust through their brake lines. I think your experience in SC is pretty different to those of us north of the salt line.
Exactly. It's not at all uncommon here. In fact, it's what finally took my neighbor's Contour off the road after 15+ years and 200k miles.
And the fact that this truck has a blown line makes me think that the whole underside is just a brown mass of rust. I'll pass.
I sell my cars when the hard lines go. Even after getting good at flaring line, they're usually so far gone it turns into replacing the whole thing, which turns into days of swearing, accidental kinking of line and too much headache. Salt sucks.
I had a rear brake line fail this past weekend on a 2002 Ford truck with 80k on it. Damn Road Salt
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