Failed Mot - :(

sturll

Conor wrote: »

Because you can tell if they've gone brittle from vibration and how much corrosion is on the inside from looking at it from the outside can't you? You are aware that they can rot from the inside out aren't you?

Another !!!!!! who is willing to risk the lives of the rest of us to save a tenner.

Was you calling me a !!!!!!?

anewman

Kunifer is a better option than copper if getting one pattern made to the original. Kunifer does not corrode. However it is more difficult to bend and work with.

I believe I read somewhere that copper pipes are illegal in Germany and some other countries. Apparently they can give out without any warning from prior visual checks.

cyclonebri1

Sorry but the advise about scrap yard brake pipes and the "mounting" is a laugh and shows a fundamental lack of appreciation of both economics, car design and safety. Such advise should not be given or taken:mad:

The chance of finding a good brake pipe on a scrapper is negligible, and even if you did you would be laughed at by the breaker. He wont lift a car for a 2'upny rusty pipe. If he did you'd probably bust it getting it of and when you'd finished you'd probably find it in worse condition than the one it replaced.
Plus I don't thing you would find any garage prepared to fit a 2nd hand pipe for you. Just buy a pipe from a factors, they are all listed and coiled, just need bending to fit.
A mounting is just that, a reinforced part of the monocoque chassis, to suggest replacing one really does indicate that the poster hasn't a clue what they are talking about.:rolleyes:

I haven't called anyone a !!!!!! or !!!!!! or whatever it was but the advise given is very poor an definately unsafe.

Also I don't think the welding would get done for less than about £50 at a garage, who does anything for a tenner exect at mates rates? Brake pipe probably £30-40 all told.

anewman

Also if you end up with a bit of muck in the pipe it's not going to do much good to your brakes either. Definitely worth getting a new pipe when they're so cheap.

Wig

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

The chance of finding a good brake pipe on a scrapper is negligible,

You're entitled to your opinion, but IMHO you're wrong.

and even if you did you would be laughed at by the breaker. He wont lift a car for a 2'upny rusty pipe.

of course he wouldn't (lift it or laugh), and he wouldn't have to, if you find one accessible and suitable, you get it simple as that. Removing it would not cause damage. And you'd probably get it free of charge.

Plus I don't thing you would find any garage prepared to fit a 2nd hand pipe for you.

Obviously fit it DIY. If you can remove one, you can fit one.

Just buy a pipe from a factors, they are all listed and coiled, just need bending to fit.

Have you considered that when you bend a pipe without a proper pipe bender you will be introducing distortion points into the pipe which could easily lead to failure. Fitting a good condition scrapyard one is much safer for the DIY.

A mounting is just that, a reinforced part of the monocoque chassis, to suggest replacing one really does indicate that the poster hasn't a clue what they are talking about.:rolleyes:

Anyone talking about the anchorage point in this thread does not understand the nature of the rust, it was a small hole in the under-sill easily repaired by welding on top of it a small covering plate. A tenner is very realistic price, I've had it done myself, so has ABN by all accounts.

2_litre

brake pipe from a scrapyard that made me laugh

jeannieblue

2_litre wrote: »

brake pipe from a scrapyard that made me laugh

Can't say I laughed - kinda made a gawping type facial expression.

I don't mean to be rude to the OP, but after all this - now we learn that she has a family friend that does bodywork etc. Why'd we bother??

BigBouncyBall

"she" is actually a he

thank you for your advice - sorry it was such a hassle to give out. It must have taken you all of 100 seconds to write. I apologise for luring you into a thread and posting something you didn't feel you needed to bother with.

cyclonebri1

Fitting a 2nd hand brake pipe is the single most wrong piece of advice I have ever heard here or anywhere else for that matter.
I just hope the OP has the nous to realise that

Conor_3

Wig wrote: »

Have you considered that when you bend a pipe without a proper pipe bender you will be introducing distortion points into the pipe which could easily lead to failure.

No because the stuff you get in coils is designed to be formed by hand.

Anyone talking about the anchorage point in this thread does not understand the nature of the rust, it was a small hole in the under-sill easily repaired by welding on top of it a small covering plate. A tenner is very realistic price, I've had it done myself, so has ABN by all accounts.

It wasn't that which was the problem. It was claiming you had to cut another anchorage point out of a scrap car when one merely needs to plate it with a bit of scrap.