Brake line painting advice

[Jasikasisback]

Recently had my car fail on "excessively corroded brake lines"... Hmmm if excessively corroded they should be leaking

Anyway...I have yet to own a car where the brake lines failed...and I lived in Canada where salt kills cars...they rot out and there are holes in the floor but brake lines never failed...

So now am taking a 20/year old golf for MOT and want to know if I can paint the lines on metallic paint...the lines look OK on this car but again the tester can just say...hey they are no good.
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So is it OK just to clean and paint them with Hammerite?

[lemski]

If we take a car to mot and theres a little corrosion we clean it up with a wire brush.
You can paint or underseal them in the UK but it can be advised because they cant see the condition of them.
If they clean up alright after a wire brush I cant see how they can fail them.

Also ive had a metal brakeline go after it had gone through an mot by the previous owner. It went down a hill.

[Jasikasisback]

So it can be an advisory if you paint the lines with rust deterring  paint like hammerite.

But not a fail...

I never had brake lines go on me in Canada on any car and.the rust was massive..I mean cars just rust away in less than a decade if you drive it during the winter...no amount of waxoil etc will save it.

Usually people have two cars, a summer one.and a winter one.


The way they salt the roads here the last few years (even.were.salting the roads a.few.weeks back in the M25, why I don't know as temperatures never.reached.zero) cars will rust out quicker..
When it is cold they put little salt...and.save it for April




I think the MOT overall is abused by most testers...it has made me.look over the whole car now before.the MOT..

I have checked everything on the golf, and I hope it doesn't fail...

[lemski]

Its mot testers descretion, but ive only had them advised as they cant see if its corroded. Same with if the brake lines are under covers or reruted in through the car

[Jasikasisback]

My luck is that I get really strict testers...they could probably fail a brand new car....after all if something is excessively corroded...then it should leak...have a hole...if not then it is not excessive...this is totally subjective

[lemski]

Well I can tell you that we have had a car go to one ppace and fail on something and took itto another and it failed on something totally different.
So what one test says is excessive another may think is only worth advising.
Have you got a picture of the brake lines your on about

[Jasikasisback]

Will take video later today

[Jasikasisback]

Failed MOT on faded number plate and insufficient nearsided wiper...will sort in next few days

[jimmydub]

sounds like an overly critical tester to me, take it else where next time

[Jasikasisback]

He passed the car..the rear plate had mold in between the letters...how do I get the old plate off? How do I get the yellow things off on top of the screws...or do I have to destroy them??

The wiper blade needs replacing anyway...assume that ECP best place to get a replacement pair??carparts4less?