[s-cars] SS line failures yet again

[john at westcoastgarage.net]

Pat Martin wrote:

>I have, ehem, personal experience in this matter.  While rotating tires 6
>months or so ago on my wifes A6 I had noticed that both of the rear brake
>lines had some wear to them. I ordered replacements and was planning on
>doing them when I did the rear brakes soon there after.  Time went on and
>about a month ago my wife had to pound the brakes at a stoplight and one of
>them failed. Thankfully the speeds were very slow so the car she hit in
>front of her sustained no damage and no one was hurt.  The hitch did make a
>nice aerodynamic modification to her grill/hood. Needless to say I will be
>paying for that procrastination for a very long time.  
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>Pat Martin
>95 S6 Avant, IA Stage III, 18x8 RS knockoffs. 255/30/18 PZero Nero's, 
>
>86 4kcsq turbo, 3" "cat" back, Coil overs/konis holding it up, MC and loving
>it.  Custom ECU with data logging tuning it, Drilled and stopping it.
>Borbet's with Kuhmo V710's  turning it,  K&N and uh....
>
>"Some wear"?  Care to describe that more specifically?  If you mean "wear" as in rubbing or some other abrasion, there's another problem.  If you mean cracking or other signs of weathering, that's waaaay early for the kind of wear leading to failure. 
>
>John 
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>
1965 911, with new brake hoses just 3 years ago!  (Went to vented front 
brakes and the old ones were too short.)
1990 90 9020v, original hoses and 250K on the clock.
Whole buncha other cars and bikes .....................