2020 Low Brake Fluid warning. Leaking brake fluid.

[HenryMac]

Don't touch it. If it's stripped or cross threaded & you touch it Ford could deny warranty stating you did it. Just my 2 cent's.

Bullshit... Damn you folks are afraid of everything.

Maybe change your user name to Brown Streak?

With that mentality I shouldn't have lowered the factory tire air pressure from 50 psi down to 37 psi....

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[Blue Streak]

Bullshit... Damn you folks are afraid of everything.

Maybe change your user name to Brown Streak?

With that mentality I shouldn't have lowered the factory tire air pressure from 50 psi down to 37 psi....

Bullshit don't think so. Lowering air pressure is not going to void your factory warranty as those are covered by the tire manufacturer. Messing with mechanical parts of your vehicle could. One pays good money for a vehicle and the manufacturer should be held accountable.?

 

[AdamHarris]

Bullshit... Damn you folks are afraid of everything.

Maybe change your user name to Brown Streak?

With that mentality I shouldn't have lowered the factory tire air pressure from 50 psi down to 37 psi....

So much unmitigated fear of all things wrenching related on here.

 

[Ranger54]

Just bad luck IMO. Never seen this one before. Ford will get ya fixed up in jiffy!

 

[Trigganometry]

in relation to this, I had a friends daughter go through a similar scenario of a shop erring on the side of stupidity.

she got tangled up in a drunk driver rollover a few weeks ago in her Fiesta.
She hit debris from his rolling wrecking yard. Body damage and such and believes she got air going over the guys car parts.

got it into a body shop and insurance denied a broken wheel stud, said it wasnt from the collision. But i guess they must have superman skills to be able to rate the impact over the phone. I know keyboard warriors are good, but these insurance people have got to be the best in the business.
anyways, she gets a quote from the body shop to replace the stud, and she agrees to pay out of pocket. $150. no biggy.
thing is when she picked up the car, they didn't change the broken stud. oops, they forgot.
but no worries young lady, just don't drive up north or anything, you'll be fine.

If you guys think I am an asshole on here, shoulda been part of the phone call when i ripped this body shop manager/owner a new asshole.

He was very sheepish and apologetic when i went with her a couple days later to get the car.
funny thing, he still tried to blame the insurance for the mix-up and then tried telling me I was unsafe for letting her drive a car with such worn out brakes.
guys a real winner.
I showed her how to see her brake pads through the wheel. She has grooved rotors, but about 2 mm of pad left.
told her to start looking at shops to get them changed in the next few weeks. But not this guys shop, and if needed, i'll help her B/F in the driveway if he wants to tackle it as a home reno project.

I taught my daughters how to change tires, do brakes, change oil and rotate tires! Her B/F is amazed at what she can do with a wrench. This also gives her the information needed when dealing with idiots like you just mentioned.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

@catboxer Look on the bright side. You will get your brake system bled and should make a substantial improvement in the pedal feel as a result. When I recently bled mine using a power bleeder I was shocked to find that there were air bubbles in 3 of 4 calipers. This is even after the dealer allegedly did the same thing.

 

[Rp930]

Exactly, no way I am touching it.

Anyway off to the Ranger hospital…

Looks like a nice tow rig!

 

[HenryMac]

Bullshit don't think so. Lowering air pressure is not going to void your factory warranty as those are covered by the tire manufacturer. Messing with mechanical parts of your vehicle could. One pays good money for a vehicle and the manufacturer should be held accountable.?

By all means hold them accountable. But they are not going to void your warranty because you tightened a loose brake line fitting.

 

[dtech]

By all means hold them accountable. But they are not going to void your warranty because you tightened a loose brake line fitting.

I can understand your point - however Ford and I would think most manufacturers want to have a record of this so they can make sure this isn't an isolated incident. in today's world most everything is tracked - what time it was assembled, by whom or what robot etc. I started my working career with a tire manufacture and they brought a failed tire into the test tire lab - analyzed it and found it was built wrong, this prompted an inspection in the warehouse of every tire built by the one builder and they found numerous badly built tires, that was the end of his time building tires, and they recalled his tires that had been sent to retail stores. this was some 45 yrs ago and it was all tracked back then.

 

[Ranger54]

Looks like a nice tow rig!

That thing is an absolute UNIT

 

[HenryMac]

I can understand your point - however Ford and I would think most manufacturers want to have a record of this so they can make sure this isn't an isolated incident. in today's world most everything is tracked - what time it was assembled, by whom or what robot etc. I started my working career with a tire manufacture and they brought a failed tire into the test tire lab - analyzed it and found it was built wrong, this prompted an inspection in the warehouse of every tire built by the one builder and they found numerous badly built tires, that was the end of his time building tires, and they recalled his tires that had been sent to retail stores. this was some 45 yrs ago and it was all tracked back then.

And that's what I meant by hold them accountable. Tighten the fitting, then take it to the dealer. I fail to see the logic in allowing it to leak, if 10 seconds with a line wrench will stop the leak.

 

[Blue Streak]

And that's what I meant by hold them accountable. Tighten the fitting, then take it to the dealer. I fail to see the logic in allowing it to leak, if 10 seconds with a line wrench will stop the leak.

My point exactly. If you try to tighten it & it was not loose but stripped or cross threaded and you told them you tried to stop the leak, which would be a warranty issue, they could say it was your fault.

 

[catboxer]

I had the tow truck guy pump the brakes and it wasn't coming from the fitting anyway, seemed to be the hose itself near where it makes the 90 bend. Couldn't feel a hole or cut but it was also covered in fluid. I wonder if Ford will bring it back on that nice flat bed. It was pretty sweet, neon green and chrome.

 

[HenryMac]

My point exactly. If you try to tighten it & it was not loose but stripped or cross threaded and you told them you tried to stop the leak, which would be a warranty issue, they could say it was your fault.

OK Francis

I had the tow truck guy pump the brakes and it wasn't coming from the fitting anyway, seemed to be the hose itself near where it makes the 90 bend. Couldn't feel a hole or cut but it was also covered in fluid. I wonder if Ford will bring it back on that nice flat bed. It was pretty sweet, neon green and chrome.

Was the hose rubbing on the tire / wheel? That's been discussed here before.. Front Brake Hose Rubbing Against Wheel

 

[Leftcoast]

I’m with Bleu on this one. It’s under warranty so it’s Fords problem. It wasn’t spraying rocket fuel on the troops. It’s easier to diagnose a problem if it hasn’t been semi repaired.

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