Man of Honour
Hi, first of all, let me say this is not me, I'm not this stupid, as I know some of you like to come to that conclusion 
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Right, a friend and work colleague of mine did something a little silly the other night. It was dark, and he was trying to fill up his washer water bottle under his bonnet. He'd never been under the bonnet of this car, and he found a cap and added some washer fluid to the container, only to be shocked to find the container fill up after only a few drops.
He then realised, all of a sudden, that it's actually not the water cap that he's been pouring it into, but the brake oil reservoir. He then proceeds to try and clean it out using kitchen roll to soak up the blue water of the fluid that had stayed at the top, until he started getting oil on the roll.
Now I've told him that this is can be very dangerous sticking the wrong stuff in his brake fluid, especially water, but he's so worried about how much it would cost to get his brakes bled, that he's still driving around.
Is it really that dangerous? Or could have get away with a tiny bit of this in his system? If it was me, I'd have gotten the system cleared out immediately.
The car is a 04 Nissan Micra by the way.
Cheers
Dave
. Right, a friend and work colleague of mine did something a little silly the other night. It was dark, and he was trying to fill up his washer water bottle under his bonnet. He'd never been under the bonnet of this car, and he found a cap and added some washer fluid to the container, only to be shocked to find the container fill up after only a few drops.
He then realised, all of a sudden, that it's actually not the water cap that he's been pouring it into, but the brake oil reservoir. He then proceeds to try and clean it out using kitchen roll to soak up the blue water of the fluid that had stayed at the top, until he started getting oil on the roll.
Now I've told him that this is can be very dangerous sticking the wrong stuff in his brake fluid, especially water, but he's so worried about how much it would cost to get his brakes bled, that he's still driving around.
Is it really that dangerous? Or could have get away with a tiny bit of this in his system? If it was me, I'd have gotten the system cleared out immediately.
The car is a 04 Nissan Micra by the way.
Cheers
Dave
) then it will not retain its properties which make it ideal as 'break fluid' ie when it is put under compression (breaking force) is will go all spongey thus reducing breaking force... which is baaad mmmkay? 
