Heads Up for Brake Line Check

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Great info. Thanks for sharing.
I know what I'll do tomorrow.

This is a little off topic for this section but I wanted to post this here so it gets the most exposure. Im a BMW Tech and over the last couple months I have had 2 E53 X5's with a potentially dangerous issue. The brake lines going to the rear calipers rusted and blew out. Both of them experienced the failure in the exact same spot. On the left side of the vehicle there is a long splash panel that runs the length of the rocker. If you remove it you will see the brake lines, there are two there that run down and along the length of the inside of the rocker. Toward the front there is a plastic bracket which holds the lines, two fuel lines, and the vacuum line to the fuel filter. On both of the cars they rotted in the same spot, where they clip in to the plastic bracket. #3 in the pic below is the line and #17 is the bracket they clip into. The strange thing is that these lines are completely covered by the splash panel so they are not getting water/salt/crud constantly flung onto them, though somehow they are rotting. So if any of you guys own an X5 also you might want to take a look at these lines.

if you can catch it early its an easy fix. little bit a of sandpaper and some undercoat should do the trick.

Might as well just put some undercoat on them. I wonder if Plasti-Dip would work here.