Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: I_want_an_Omega on 14 March 2010, 11:46:16
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Hi,
When I had the car MOTd last July it had an advisory on both OS brake pipes as being slightly corroded.
When it had a visit to National Tyres in Nov (yes, I know ....) I asked the MOT tester for his view. He said that he would have passed them.
So, what do I do? If they need doing can they be fixed - or do they need to be replaced and is this expensive? I certainly aint doing it myself ...
Comments welcome.
Ta
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Hi
I had similar with my rear pipes - two years ago advisory, one year ago - fail.
I have flaring kit and can work copper pipes but not the steel ones on the Omega, my local independent garage did the pipes for me - £50. They cut the steel pipes just beneath the rear seats, flared the ends there onto a new union joint and then ran a length of copper to the rear calipers from the new joint.
If you are going to keep the car for any length of time then I'd say it's a job worth getting done
Graeme
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Thanks - much appreciated, the car has only done 3k since the MOT - so hopefully wont have got much worse
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Hi,
When I had the car MOTd last July it had an advisory on both OS brake pipes as being slightly corroded.
When it had a visit to National Tyres in Nov (yes, I know ....) I asked the MOT tester for his view. He said that he would have passed them.
So, what do I do? If they need doing can they be fixed - or do they need to be replaced and is this expensive? I certainly aint doing it myself ...
Comments welcome.
Ta
Give them a good clean up and coat `em with grease