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Rear Brake has no effect on 08 GenII
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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 1141346" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>Actually, for brake fluid replacement, mileage doesn't matter at all. You could safely keep the same fluid for over 100k miles, so long as you did that in the allotted time frame (1-2 years). The <em>only</em> reason you change brake fluid is to get rid of the water it has absorbed, and that is purely time related, based on exposure to the humidity in the air.</p><p></p><p>Those who live near the coast, or in the tropics, where relative humidity is apt to be higher would do well to change it annually or bi-annually at most. If you live and ride only in the desert where there is never any humidity you could safely extend those intervals.</p><p></p><p>The problem is, there is not good way to gauge how much H2O the fluid has absorbed, so we all tend to just do it on a worst case periodicity to be safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 1141346, member: 3828"] Actually, for brake fluid replacement, mileage doesn't matter at all. You could safely keep the same fluid for over 100k miles, so long as you did that in the allotted time frame (1-2 years). The [I]only[/I] reason you change brake fluid is to get rid of the water it has absorbed, and that is purely time related, based on exposure to the humidity in the air. Those who live near the coast, or in the tropics, where relative humidity is apt to be higher would do well to change it annually or bi-annually at most. If you live and ride only in the desert where there is never any humidity you could safely extend those intervals. The problem is, there is not good way to gauge how much H2O the fluid has absorbed, so we all tend to just do it on a worst case periodicity to be safe. [/QUOTE]
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