Hi,
My car has failed its mot on (n/s/r brake pipe to caliper) I have just had a look and the pipe has a coil in it, question is can I just have a pipe made up at an indipendent citroen garage or will I have to pay a fortune at the dealers for an orginal pipe, I presume it has a coil in it for a reason.
Cheers
Paul
Brake pipe
Moderator: RichardW
Should be an on the shelf part. Nothing special. I believe some brands of brake pipe come with this metal to protect the pipe from rubbing on the constantly moving suspension parts. When I replaced the pipes on the front of my AX the pipes had done just that (worn on steering/ suspension), I bought from a local motor factor and they supplied such "with metal coils on" items.
What model do you have anyhow?
What model do you have anyhow?
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What ever you do do NOT buy a dealer steel part! The pipes are a complex shape and threaded through the subframe. It would be possible - just - to refit the nearside one preformed, but the offside one I had to cut into 3 bits to get it out - to get the steel back in would require removing the height corrector and anti-sink gear. Get your local independant to make you some up in coppera and form the coil round something appropriate. Drill out the rivets on the pipe clamp on the inboard end, and re-use the clamp to fix the new parts. When I did mine I also overhauled the calipers, and it took most of a weekend...
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i recently replaced the offside front brake pipe on a xantia, the one that runs right along the sub frame and i used a dealer off the shelf pipe as i couldn't get anyone to make me a one out off copper with out first removing the old one to copy and i can't be without the car , but i agree with richard a copper pipe would have been a better idea as it bends very easy and less likely to kink.
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