Topic: ATE Brake Fluid

[SolNut]

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20130824/DA8CCPLG0.html

Picked some of this up in Austin @ NASSM.  Currently using it and trying to find out the date codes for the BAD stuff. 

[Dave@DDMworks]

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20130824/DA8CCPLG0.html

Picked some of this up in Austin @ NASSM.  Currently using it and trying to find out the date codes for the BAD stuff. 

There is nothing wrong with the ATE super Blue you have, it is fine to use. The problem is that the DOT requires brake fluid to be clear or amber so that the incorrect fluid is not put in the brake reservoir, or also to prevent brake fluid from being put in other things. I guess that the DOT just realized after 15 years that ATE superblue is infact blue in color, that is what we have heard from our distributors of it, so the DOT is requiring ATE to stop selling the superblue, except for off road use only.

[SolNut]

Good News!!!   

Drive On! 

[2kwk4u]

DOT saving us from ourselves?  Say it ain't so!  Shouldn't there be a rule that anti-freeze should be only green, then?  And windshield washer fluid only blue?

Can royal purple oil be used in both my transmission AND windshield washer fluid reservoir?

[POS VETT]

I say if you were dumb enough not being able to differentiate blue brake fluid from blue windshield washer fluid, you should stop working on cars.