Brake fluid quality can easily checked by viewing its color - it comes out of the bottle clear and turns brown/black as it ages with air and contaminants. Most service manuals I have seen state around 4-5 years for brake fluid flushing. There are many youtube videos on how to flush brake systems, most involve low cost tools and a bottle of brake fluid. I understand not everyone wants to turn a wrench, but $200 USD is crazy. What really, really needs to be checked on an EV brake system is the lubrication. Sounds bad to lubricate your brakes but EVs suffer this as lack of use, not wear will likely ruin your brakes. The brake pads/shoes on brake systems need to move freely within their metal sliders with a silicone or ceramic goo that prevents seizure. Heating from braking also helps keep things from seizing. Where an EV doesnt use much brakes with regeneration, not much heat is seen and with water/salt spray (particularly in the rust belt), the lubricant is washed away and the pads/shoes can seize in place, continuously ride the rotor/ drum, scoring, glazing and warping the surfaces. Increased braking effort, longer stopping distances, noise and shaking/shimming will be symptoms of things gone bad. Moral of the story, have your brake sliders inspected/lubricated at least once a year, more often if you live where salt is used on roads, follow the service manual for fluid changes which are usually much longer intervals.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:52 AM paul dove via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Yes, I heated California might lose its exemption fromthe Clean Air act. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 19, 2019, at 3:40 AM, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > > > Mark is no stranger to stretching the truth, so I think that he means > that he plugs his phone into the charger outlet in his car, so technically > he can claim that his phone is (partially?) powered by fool cell which > recharges his car battery. > > Unless he has a home setup where he transports (or creates?) Hydrogen at > home and then burns it again in a fool cell so that he can retrieve (a lot > less power) for his phone. I do not know how far his infatuation with this > technology is taking him, it has been all but abandoned except in niche > applications. > > And where the lure of govt money keeps the dead man walking… > > Everyone else is working on Battery electric vehicles except where the > US govt forces automakers to create gas guzzlers to keep the oil companies > in business, but let’s not go there – too damaging for my mental health… > > Cor. > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > From: Mark Hanson via EV > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:07 AM > > To: ev@lists.evdl.org > > Cc: Mark Hanson > > Subject: [EVDL] Replacing brake fluid on EVs a stealership scam > > > > Hi Folks > > My 13' Leaf was in the stealership for a battery pack end plates recall > replacement and they told me that my brake fluid had to be replaced every > $15k miles for $200, I guess because they need the money. I did my Ranger > at 100k miles and the Prius. So for $9 I bought a brake fluid tester on > Amazon that measures the conductivity and tells you at about 2% water when > the brake fluid *actually* needs replacing! Certainly not annually. They > tried to replace my cabin air filter when I just did. Guess they just > can't make enough service money on EVs, why they avoid selling them. > > Btw Mark A. Mentioned he had a fool cell powered iPhone so I stopped by > the Apple Store at lunch and they said there was no such thing. > > Stay Charged > > Mark > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190919/5d08f354/attachment.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190920/c4c6b8c2/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
