Goodbye blue brake fluid
Goodbye blue brake fluid
posting this here because a lot of folks like ATE Super Blue. looks like the US DOT felt the need to weigh in on what color your brake fluid is. well... at least they make an amber still.
http://hooniverse.kinja.com/dafuq-th...law-1153653411
http://hooniverse.kinja.com/dafuq-th...law-1153653411
Braking News: ATE Super Blue Illegal for U.S. Distribution
Braking News: ATE Super Blue Illegal for U.S. Distribution
Last night, we heard through the grapevine that Alfred Teves Enginieering (ATE, a division of Continental) would be discontinuing the sales and distribution of the popular “Super Blue” variant of its DOT 4 brake fluid. Apparently the Super Blue fluid has run afoul of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard after nearly 15 years on the market for being blue. For the correspondence Continental sent to their distributors, and more of the story, click through the break.
It seems that the federal government has taken 15 years to figure out that Super Blue fluid is, in fact, blue in color. Evidently there is a stipulation that all brake fluids distributed in the US must be either clear or amber in color. This begs the question, why is that a law?
Braking News: ATE Super Blue Illegal for U.S. Distribution
Last night, we heard through the grapevine that Alfred Teves Enginieering (ATE, a division of Continental) would be discontinuing the sales and distribution of the popular “Super Blue” variant of its DOT 4 brake fluid. Apparently the Super Blue fluid has run afoul of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard after nearly 15 years on the market for being blue. For the correspondence Continental sent to their distributors, and more of the story, click through the break.
It seems that the federal government has taken 15 years to figure out that Super Blue fluid is, in fact, blue in color. Evidently there is a stipulation that all brake fluids distributed in the US must be either clear or amber in color. This begs the question, why is that a law?
Great..Now I won't be able to use royal purple.
On a side note...If this indeed true, it could be to avoid mistaking it as something tasty for kids (why they're playing in a garage unsupervised, I don't know) but there was a story this week about a 1 year old dying after eating a Tide Pod. Tide is now making the Pods opaque in color.
On a side note...If this indeed true, it could be to avoid mistaking it as something tasty for kids (why they're playing in a garage unsupervised, I don't know) but there was a story this week about a 1 year old dying after eating a Tide Pod. Tide is now making the Pods opaque in color.
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posting this here because a lot of folks like ATE Super Blue. looks like the US DOT felt the need to weigh in on what color your brake fluid is. well... at least they make an amber still.
http://hooniverse.kinja.com/dafuq-th...law-1153653411
http://hooniverse.kinja.com/dafuq-th...law-1153653411
The reason color standards exist is to reduce the chance of an improper fill, mostly for remote military service outposts. While no careful enthusiast would mix up brake fluid with something else (BMW coolant is also blue), but when the 18-year-old enlisted boy trashes a group of tank engines with a gallon of improper stuff, just like happened to my brother's unit in S. Korea, people can be hurt and/or lots of money lost.
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That's really too bad because I like switching between the blue and the red. It just makes it so much easier to change the fluid when you can actually see once the new fluid is throughout the system.
ATE Super Blue Deemed Illegal for US Distribution
Last edited by golgo13; Aug 23, 2013 at 03:22 PM.
I have a couple containers of each left too. Have used Superblue for years now switching between the two. Certainly makes a nice full flush easy.
Damn I should've ordered a case. Oh well
Damn I should've ordered a case. Oh well
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