Synthetic Brake Fluid?

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Author Message   Chia Wei Chen (Chiaweichen) New Member Username: Chiaweichen Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:54 pm:    Hello everyone! I just bought a 97 SE yesterday with 103k miles on it. It seems to be in good shape. I'm going to change fluids on transmission, etc. I've searched the threads and found nothing on using synthetic brake fluid. (I've used Valvoline on other cars before, worked great.) Is this good or bad for the Disco or should I just stick with regular brake fluid. I'm in NYC, so if anyone knows a good and cheap shop to do all the fluids, please let me know. Thanks and I am happy to have found Discoweb!!!   Melissa (Roverchic) Member Username: Roverchic Post Number: 168 Registered: 02-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:04 pm:    Mine needed DOT 4 ..not DOT 3 ..1998 D1   Shane Lesteberg (Snwbord24) Member Username: Snwbord24 Post Number: 93 Registered: 01-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:16 pm:    I was at Kragen (Checker/Schucks or whatever it's called in everyone's place) and the only brake fluid I saw that was DOT 4 was a synthetic. Is this normal?   Andrew Homan (Andy) Member Username: Andy Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:20 pm:    The dot rating is what matters. just stick with a main name brand and the correct dot rating and your fine. the rating has to do with temp the fluid boils at. keep the lid on it. brake fluid sucks up moisture like theres no tomarrow.   ron morgan (Rpm2429) New Member Username: Rpm2429 Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2003 Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 12:45 am:    Get some Castrol LMA, my '96 was leaking from the m/cylinder, I started using some cheap stuff figuring I was going to need to change it out anyway. I read this post about using C/LMA, I put some in and the leak stopped, that was about 20k miles ago.   Chia Wei Chen (Chiaweichen) New Member Username: Chiaweichen Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 02:04 am:    Thanks for the replies. My brother is using ATE Super Blue Racing fluid for his BMW. Dry boiling point 536F and Wet boiling point 392F. I wonder if I can use this safely. I also read that if you don't use Castrol, there may be future problems. Any comments on this being true? I think I read this on British Racing's site.