Rant: Had a brake line blow out on me last Saturday on a 2005 F-150 right as I was pulling into the driveway.

The rust finally ate through the line at the rear axle, and I had to swap the whole thing with a piece of NiCopp line from Napa that cost me $18, but bending it by hand took twice as long as I remembered. Anyone else noticed how much worse the salt belt cars are getting?

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ryan65322d ago

And the thing nobody talks about is how the newer trucks use way thinner walled line from the factory to save weight. I had a 2018 model on the lift last week and the replacement line was almost half the thickness of the original '05 stuff. Modern engineering for ya, huh.

cole_mitchell822d ago

True. That thinner line stuff is just asking for trouble with how much salt they dump now. Hope you got it sorted without too much hassle.

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