Braided Brake Hoses.

Cracking mod, only down side is not being able to crimp the line if you need to take the caliper off. In reality that's not an issue as fresh fluid is cheap and only takes 10 mins to re-bleed.
 
I've had some Goodridge hoses in my cupboard for about a year now waiting to go on lol.

Must remember to get round to it.
 
That article seems a bit off to me. The metal braid absolutely *does* tightly wrap the plastic inner tube. That's the whole point of the metal braid, to provide the pressure resistance for the otherwise flimsy tube. The metal braid is then wrapped again in a PVC plastic which provides stone and friction protection for whole thing.
 
Seems to be all positive results for people.

Did you read the link I gave which gives negatives?

Regarding the braids being pretty loose allowing expansion anyway, and the inability to check integrity / twists etc.
 
Not read the link but it depends what you car is as to whether it's worth it. My car has steel braided hoses with a rubber outer layer as standard.
 
I have them and pleased with them. I didn't read all of that article, but the bits I did read just made me think it's a biased article against them. Fair enough having an opinion, but encouraging people to buy OEM rather than braided lines just seems a bit 'salesy' - who even wrote that article??
 
That is a very poor article, whoever wrote it really doesn't have much of a clue. Without the braid, an aeroquip hose would swell up under pressure. The standard rubber hoses have a textile braid built in to prevent swelling though I doubt the author knows this.

The only remotely useful point he makes is about fitting them correctly and using the correct adapters, though this really should be common sense (if it isn't you have no business messing with brakes).
 
As above, using points like "You might fit the wrong thread size" as a negative of a braided hose? Like any other hose, and not unless you are daft.
 
Very popular on sportsbikes and used them for years to give good feel and performance out of the brakes where they are extremely sensitive and noticeable on 2 wheels especially when 70% of your braking is through the front wheel.

Well worth the investment if you can be bothered to fit them and of course correctly.
 
excellent mod and provided great feedback for me. in honesty i did mine with high performance pads and fluids also so it could be a combination of the three mods being installed together but it was certainly noticeable and held up perfectly on track with no fade.
 
rjkoneill said:
excellent mod and provided great feedback for me. in honesty i did mine with high performance pads and fluids also so it could be a combination of the three mods being installed together but it was certainly noticeable and held up perfectly on track with no fade.
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Good point, may as well do the pads and fluid whilst it is in pieces to get proper results.
 
This was always first mod i was doing on every car i had:
Good new discs+pads+Brake Hoses

Cause no point of going fast when u cant stop.
**** no point of spending money anywhere else with ****** brakes. You do 1000f suspension mod and crash ur car cause brakes are ****....

BRAKES COME FIRST
 
Has anyone ever done a blind trial of braided hoses? I ask, because all mods are always an improvement to the people that fit them. People don't like to admit that they made a pointless, or even bad, decision when spending money. So they'll fit something which has no real effect, and instantly claim they can detect the difference.
 
Depends on the car though no?

On mine I know for sure there was a difference because braking on stock was so predictable and balanced anyway on the e46 with sport suspension. The biggest tell that there was a difference was when I first navigated a road of corners I am very familiar with and being able to brake later than I felt I could before when dsc would activate brake force distribution.
 
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