Cost for brake fluid change for a 1.0 VVTI Yaris?

BeenThroughItAll

londonTiger wrote: »

You need to pay for special hazardous waste collection for brake fluid. Some idiot on another motoring forum suggested mixing dot4 brake fluid in engine oil and dropping it into the oil bank, potentially contaminating their entire vat.

Brake fluid is a corrosive substance and your average waste recycling centre do not take these.

Your council may have different facilities.

Rubbish, waste brake fluid can be perfectly safely disposed of in the oil bank, as can waste cooking oil, engine oil, gearbox oil.


You know brake fluid is oil, right? Either mineral or synthetic, plus additives? And you know that the oil from waste banks is recycled into other products? And you know that different grades and types aren't separated in the waste oil bank?


The industrial recycling process doesn't sort each molecule of oil by type, it doesn't need to.

espresso

londonTiger wrote: »

Brake fluid is a corrosive substance

More rubbish!

Brake fluid obviously does not corrode the metal components in master cylinders, wheel cylinders, ABS valves etc.

Best kept off your paintwork but you could say that about birdsh!te or washing up liquid.

You really should not be giving advice on here.

BeenThroughItAll

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Rubbish, waste brake fluid can be perfectly safely disposed of in the oil bank, as can waste cooking oil, engine oil, gearbox oil.


You know brake fluid is oil, right? Either mineral or synthetic, plus additives? And you know that the oil from waste banks is recycled into other products? And you know that different grades and types aren't separated in the waste oil bank?


The industrial recycling process doesn't sort each molecule of oil by type, it doesn't need to.

Oh, and BTW, I bought 5L of DOT4 brake fluid last month and it cost me £7.99. So it's not anywhere near as expensive as, say, the synthetic ATF my car uses, and I'd use a lot less than 5L changing the fluid.


On another note, I tried using a litre of it to strip the paint off an old model steam engine boiler. Left it two weeks and you know what? No corrosive effect whatsoever. Tried Nitro-mors, and that took the paint off no problem and guess what - my local waste disposal site takes old paint stripper.

JustinR1979

londonTiger wrote: »

brake fluid is the most expensive fluid on a car

You meant cheapest right?
Probably do a change for a fiver.
Engine oil can cost towards £100 these days.
Gearbox oil could be £50 if you need more than 2 litres of good stuff.
Coolant maybe a tenner for decent red stuff.
My old brake fluid goes in the bin.

JustinR1979

Bantex wrote: »

Surprised the MSE filth filter let you post "nipples".

Wash mitt (all one word) is in there, !!!!!! is that all about??

AdrianC

JustinR1979 wrote: »

You meant cheapest right?

Depends on how you judge cost. Per litre, or per car-full?

Halfords prices for fairly ordinary stuff :
Gearbox oil - £8.50/litre
Engine oil - £4.10/litre
Coolant concentrate - £5/litre
Brake fluid - £15/litre

JustinR1979

AdrianC wrote: »

Depends on how you judge cost. Per litre, or per car-full?

Halfords prices for fairly ordinary stuff :
Gearbox oil - £8.50/litre
Engine oil - £4.10/litre
Coolant concentrate - £5/litre
Brake fluid - £15/litre

You can get 5 litres for less than that.
Say you use 2 litres for the change, that's £6.
£3 a litre, which is less than the other fluids you list.

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Oh, and BTW, I bought 5L of DOT4 brake fluid last month and it cost me £7.99.

See, nice and cheap

Captaincodpiece

AdrianC wrote: »

Depends on how you judge cost. Per litre, or per car-full?

Halfords prices for fairly ordinary stuff :
Gearbox oil - £8.50/litre
Engine oil - £4.10/litre
Coolant concentrate - £5/litre
Brake fluid - £15/litre

It's £19.96 a litre if you're daft enough to buy 250ml bottles.

OddballJamie

Anyone with an older Pug/Citroen diesel?
Eolys fluid £30+ a litre. :eek:

JustinR1979

OddballJamie wrote: »

Anyone with an older Pug/Citroen diesel?
Eolys fluid £30+ a litre. :eek:

Is that something like AdBlue?