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Each product that you buy from market contains some kind of impurity in it, there are few come in the form of raw materials and others created or developed at the time of use. These types of contagion mostly degrade the standard of a product, create bottlenecks in the operation, and lessen the life of a product or an apparatus. Similarly, in Brake Fluid there are few impurities, which adversely affect the quality of the oil and undoubtedly these impurities are usually included at time of operation due to lack of supervision and full of carelessness.

Humidity:

The nature of Brake oil is hygroscopic, thus it soaks up the humidity from environment and gradually increases its amount. Humidity deeply affects the product in following manner.

• Boiling point of Brake oil declines and in just couple of years it comes down to minimum acceptable level.

• Thickness of the fluid increases in lower temperature, therefore more strength is to be put into for brake each time.

• Brake paddle gets soft due to the existence of water vapor.

• Probability of Brake fail rises in lower temperature because ice crystal is formed in line.

• Humidity damages component because of corrosion inside the component.

• Humidity shortens the life of brake oil part by the corrosion.

Filth:

On an average a driver presses brakes around 80,000 times in the span of a year and anticipates them to remain functional whenever he uses them. Because of excessive use of the brakes, some kind of filth appears in the brake component and may cause the following troubles:

• It can chock the brake line.

• Adds up to the thickness of brake fluid so further pressing is needed each time, which lengthens the time of applying the brake in complete force and because of that the chances of accident rises.

Petroleum product:

Products such as lubricant, gear, transmission, steering oil, or grease etc. that are used in a vehicle is called petroleum product. Sometimes, all these above products are mixed with brake oil. Petroleum products quickly soak up by rubber parts of the brake system that impact in softening, bulging, and damaging of functional capacity of these rubber parts. And due to that again functioning of brake system directly affects, which may lead to brake failure.

Air:

Apart from other things, Air can also create hurdles in braking system. It causes brake system when air is blocked; the air creates a vapour lock and thereby causes brakes to be spongy.

Silicon oil:

The ill-assorted brake fluid such as DOT 5 is pour into polyglycol based products like DOT3, DOT4 and DOT5.1.

Fatty oil:

It has been found that fatty oil such as castor oil is mixed with the brake oil, which increases the thickness and lessens the life of the brake oil.

The author of this article is an expert of petroleum products. He has been in the petroleum industry for more than two decades and shares his experience with others to make them aware of what should they do and which Brake Fluid Exporters they should go with.