Re: Brake/ PS Fluid

[Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Robert Turlington say:

> I'm talking about the P.S. resevoir.  Right now the fluid in it is dark
> color, I think its just the stock Audi fluid.  Is this comparable to
> Pentosin 7.1 or 11s?  Can the mineral and synthetic fluids be mixed just
> for a couple days till I flush the whole system???

The stock Audi fluid is Pentosin.

The '89 100 used 7.1, the original mineral oil based one. But
either the 7.1 or 11s will work in it (the new synthetic is
backward compatible).

Newer cars that were designed for the 11s synthetic CANNOT
use the old 7.1 Pentosin.

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