Brake fluid change help please

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Frodo

This raises a question I've had ever since the government, in its infinite wisdom, banned the use of blue (and any color other than amber, I gather) brake fluid. Would it be harmful to add a few drops of food coloring to the amber? Say, blue, for example? I can't imagine it would hurt anything, but I'm chicken to try. Any gamblers out there?

I thought the same thing myself.
IIRC, I did some research about putting coloring in the brake fluid and it was not a good idea. I could be wrong YMMV

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by JayG

I thought the same thing myself.
IIRC, I did some research about putting coloring in the brake fluid and it was not a good idea. I could be wrong YMMV

Wonder why? I would think that stuff would be pretty inert. Oh, well...I'm not tryin' it.

Wonder if the makers of ATE Superblue would reveal what they used to use to color it blue? I suppose probably not. Or if it would be illegal for them to offer small dropper bottles of the blue concentrate that the end-of-the-line consumer could add himself? A pipedream, I'm sure.

I notice it (the blue version) is still, for the moment, available online..

[sickbananas]

Okay let's re-phase if that's acceptable? Lazy is perhaps the wrong word as I am far from lazy especially when it comes to my cars! It's just nice to have opinions of choices and methods on one thread incase something is missed on all the other threads that cover the topic.

Thanks for all the answers so far!