Shimano brake juice.

plugp7

Just changed from Avid to Shimano brakes. Need to bleed them after hose shortening and come to buy Shimano mineral brake juice. Are they joking at at £9 for 100ml and a bit of tube! Unicorn pi55 is cheaper! Does everyone use this or is there a reasonably priced alternative?

The Rookie

Castrol LHM for Citroens, about the same price for 1litre

maringirl

Halford's sell the mineral oil for about £4-5

Barrelmaker

I just use halfords mineral oil.

plugp7

maringirl wrote:

Halford's sell the mineral oil for about £4-5

£4.79 for 125ml will do me cocker.
Off to Halfords in the AM.

mmacavity

http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/04/11/tec ... c-updated/

Shimano seem to contradict themselves slightly, and possibly get their degrees C and degrees F muddled-up.

njee20

plugp7 wrote:

maringirl wrote:

Halford's sell the mineral oil for about £4-5

£4.79 for 125ml will do me cocker.
Off to Halfords in the AM.

But you were presumably going to get the Shimano stuff online, so it's £9 vs £4.79, so you're saving £4, and getting a little bit more, which will be pretty useless as you won't use the whole Shimano one anyway, and unless you live on top of a Halfords you'll probably spend that getting there, not to mention the time.

stubs

You can buy genuine Shimano oil on ebay. I got a 100ml bottle for £6 thats enough to fill front and rear brakes with plenty left over for the inevitable Oh F**k moment when you spill some.

thelonegroover

£7.49/ltr from taximan on ebay. Then you can share it with your freinds.

lugsey2k5

Halfords LHM in the automotive department is a simialr price to the shimano stuff for 1 litre, use a trade card and its about £3 for a litre.

plugp7

njee20 wrote:

plugp7 wrote:

maringirl wrote:

Halford's sell the mineral oil for about £4-5

£4.79 for 125ml will do me cocker.
Off to Halfords in the AM.

But you were presumably going to get the Shimano stuff online, so it's £9 vs £4.79, so you're saving £4, and getting a little bit more, which will be pretty useless as you won't use the whole Shimano one anyway, and unless you live on top of a Halfords you'll probably spend that getting there, not to mention the time.

There must be some logic in that remark but it eludes me!

ednino

I use LHM (the green stuff). It actually feels better to me than shimano fluid and costs about £5 for 1 litre

Used it for 4 years in my XC bike with no issues

UncleMonty

Halfords sell the same mineral oil (dot 4 / 5 etc) in both their motor & bike departments but the prices are widley different, twice as much for a quarter of the volume in the bike dept last time I bought some.

cooldad

UncleMonty wrote:

Halfords sell the same mineral oil (dot 4 / 5 etc) in both their motor & bike departments but the prices are widley different, twice as much for a quarter of the volume in the bike dept last time I bought some.

That's not mineral oil. Doesn't invalidate your point, but...

pesky_jones

Its a shame, I dont think you even needed to bleed the brakes in the first place.

mmacavity

http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content ... le.html/02)%20Brake%20Hose%20Trimming.pdf

poah

Pesky Jones wrote:

Its a shame, I dont think you even needed to bleed the brakes in the first place.

you'll get a small bubble or two coming out of the caliper after you cut the hose