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as announced this morning


Castrol recalls brake fluid

Castrol Australia is voluntarily recalling an incorrectly packaged lubricant, warning its use will harm the performance of vehicles' braking systems.

The company is recalling the lubricant, which cannot be used as brake fluid.

It has been packaged in four-litre dark grey bottles and incorrectly labelled as Castrol Response Dot 4 brake fluid.

The company has warned that using the lubricant in the grey bottle would result in a "detrimental performance" of vehicles' braking systems.

The correctly labelled product for Castrol Response Dot 4 is a red bottle and this product is not being recalled.

Anyone who has purchased the recalled product should immediately contact the Castrol Customer Service phone line on 1800 681 099.

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thought this was important


cheers

further........
there are notices in todays Melbourne papers
will scan and post here

coz brake fluid thats not brake fluid..is bloody dangerous

Thanks for putting that up Smitty.

So is it definitely only the 4ltr bottles? Coz I have some 1ltr ones here....

more...........



cheers

are the little grey bottles affected aswell ? ?

cause my mate put some in his bike .. and i used it in my old cbr250 ... and its probly still in it

mitch179 wrote:are the little grey bottles affected aswell ? ?

cause my mate put some in his bike .. and i used it in my old cbr250 ... and its probly still in it

Mitch
I suggest if you are unsure...ring Castrol (the 1800 is a free call too)

cheers

Pharrk... I use Castrol Response DOT 4.

Called the customer service and the 0.5L bottle I got is *not* affected. Pheew Not too sure how those people putting in non-brake fluids in their calipers though

Thanks Smitty. How is it that you always in the "know" ?

well thats a relief haha

what a cock up

Wonder how much you can sue them for if you write of your bike with the wrong stuff in it...

How would you do that from the grave?

mitch179 wrote:well thats a relief haha

what a cock up

thanks Mitch
and it is a cock up.......

it is a sort of lubracant ( the newspaper said) so it wouldnt be toooooo bad , would it ?

brakes/hydro clutches are designed to use a incompressible fluid that has a few magical properties like heat resistance and and well im not sure what the other benifits are. Basically though, i KNOW they eat paint if dot 4 or 5.1 and are silicone based if dot 5. i dont know about you but just going on the latter properties that sounds a shitload different to how engine lube and auto tranny fluid act.

The big thing is that anything else will boil at a much lower temp, so you might not realise until you start working the brakes and then all of a sudden not much happens when you pull the lever. Kinda like what happens when I cook the brakes on the racebike......

or it could be if they put the dot5 (blue stuff silcone based) in the wrong bottles and you mix it with the glcol stuff(everything else) it turns to jelly and roots your brakes.