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Originally Posted by z4m_06
Can you elaborate a little bit on the inconvenience of the Stainless Steel brake lines?
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When you install stainless steel brake lines, you crack open the system to air. It can often lead to multiple flushes and activating ABS in order to fully purge the system of air bubbles. So the gain for having "stiffer" pedal can be negated if the installer isn't careful about sealing off the system during the install. Typically the lines come with a little cap to cap the hard line while you install, but some don't.
The other inconvenience is the fact that the steel braids don't flex as much as the rubber nylon reinforced hoses, causing some strain to be put on the fitting at the hard line side, or the fitting on the caliper side. Stainless steel braided lines have a slightly higher failure rate as they age, so you have to keep an eye on the two fittings on each side and make sure nothing is causing the line to twist, since said twist will lead to early failure.
Just minor inconveniences. Some swears by stainless steel braided lines, I had a set installed on my MZ4 Coupe, including complete rear lines, and the improvement was marginal. Of course, the fixed calipers from RacingBrake I installed has a set of Goodridge lines, I'm not going to complain.