Brake Fluid maintenance?

[jchadwell]

What’s your recommendation?

Dan

Pick up a fluid tester from Amazon and change it out when some water absorption is indicated. I’ve never had to change brake fluid on any of my daily drivers. All of them have gone 150,000 or more miles and 5-7 years. The factory schedule for my current daily says every 5 years.

The Supra is now a little more than three years old but I only average about 4-5000 miles and 10-12 autocrosses per year so I don’t really plan to change it until maybe next year when I put it away for winter. Or maybe at year 5. I’m not doing track days any longer so I’m not really concerned.

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[Danimal]

Ok, so not following factory recommendations and berating people who also don’t follow recommendations but err on the more frequent side. And assuming you know more than they do. Got it.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Change it every 12-15 miles change unless you track. $175 at the dealership. Easy Peezy. Which

 

[lucky phil]

Change it every 12-15 miles change unless you track. $175 at the dealership. Easy Peezy. Which

$175 at the dealership and an open ended cost for the problems they create in doing it

Phil

 

[jchadwell]

Ok, so not following factory recommendations and berating people who also don’t follow recommendations but err on the more frequent side. And assuming you know more than they do. Got it.

Berating?

 

[Brolee]

Buy a motive power bleeder and 2 bottles of brake fluid of your choice that is compatible
Spend a nice day with your car and about an hour of time to bleed you fluids
Best day ever

I'm assuming we want the European Power Bleeder from Motive?

 

[ky.supra]

I'm assuming we want the European Power Bleeder from Motive?

Yes, that's correct

 

[FLtrackdays]

Just got a message pop up on my Supra asking to maintenance my brake fluid? This is pretty new to me. So my question is how important is this to do? I have only 12,300 miles in my car at the moment. Also is it an easy task to do or should I just go to my dealership for this maintenance?

Our cars come with DOT4 fluid. Better performance but needs to be changed more often. If you’re tracking, you can go by feel or bleed them between track sessions. The latter being the extreme that I like ?

https://www.advicsaftermarket.com/t...what-is-the-difference-between-dot-3-vs-dot-4

 

[introspectivellama]

Thank you for all the suggestions. I recently bought a 2020 A90 with 30k miles and the service light for brake fluid went on. My mechanic that owns BMW's and Evo's said that I should be fine. Will test the brake fluid with the brake fluid tester just in case though.

 

[LifeofTimeAttack]

If it’s not on track you don’t need to change it every 2 years or something like that.

Just go with Toyota recommendations.
Believe me when i say that Toyota are on the safe side on that number

I change all of it once a year and then change 0.5L in the season of Time Attack
But there are a massive heat difference haha

 

[RWhiz]

Buy a motive power bleeder and 2 bottles of brake fluid of your choice that is compatible
Spend a nice day with your car and about an hour of time to bleed you fluids
Best day ever

Pretty much my option. I put the car on my QuickJack, remove the wheels, they can always use a good detail. Next morning after coffee I get the Motive pressure bleeder ready, bleed the brakes, detail the calipers and have a wonderful morning with my car. It certainly doesn't hurt anything and doesn't cost a bunch either.

Edit:

Our cars use about a quart and a half, which leaves me with about a half a quart of high quality brake fluid which I use for my Honda CR450r, and can use in my SRAM mountain bike calipers as well.

 

[Highboost145]

I came here for brake fluid and pad recommendation only to see people arguing on the fluid change intervals.

 

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