Ok, be honest, how many of you folks here religiously bleed/flush your brakes every two years? I’m feeling lazy now, and want to wait a little longer. LOL.

I use a test strip kit at the 2 year mark and if completely clear, I go another year. I have used this one with good results:

Cool, thanks!

I use mine for HPDE, so sometimes bleed and replace twice or more per season. Brake fluid is cheap compared to what happens with brake fade at speed with a sharp corner coming up fast. On my 928, every couple of years or so. The fluid is hydroscopic so it accumulates water. This means time rather than miles is the metric. Bigger question - how often do you do this with your grocery getter?

The two other cars in the fam, I always have them serviced at the stealership so I do get the brakes done as scheduled. I like to do most of the easy work myself on the 997 though (oil and air filter changes), as I just don’t like handing my car over to them unless it’s a larger job. To me, brakes and bleeding is larger even though it’s really not cause I don’t like putting my car on jacks. Makes me nervous.

Exactly 2 years. No. Every 2-3 yes. And since I started doing this I have had no caliper failures. On my early cars (all American) I never flushed the break fluid. Just drained a little and topped off when I did pads and rotors. At about 10 years and 150-200k on the home fleet I had a rash of frozen caliper pistons. Since doing every 2-3 years I haven't had to rebuild a caliper in 10 years.

3-4 years. Kinda depends.

If I recall, Porsche recently extended the service period for brake fluid flushes to three years.
But it's always good to test regularly, and this tester is reasonable pretty accurate:

Same as a few other folks… I test @ 2 years with an inexpensive digital brake fluid tester (

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) and replace if there is moisture in the fluid. If not, I test again during annual maintenance the next year and replace when it shows moisture.

I have an electronic tester that tells me the water content of the brake fluid. I renew it about every 2 years or when the water content exceeds what it should on the meter.

I run Motul RBF600 in all my cars and those higher performance fluids need to be renewed more frequently, but after having a parking brake issue overheat one caliper on my truck, boil the fluid, and almost have a wreck on the highway because of it, the safety margin afforded by that higher boiling point fluid is worth it in my opinion. I usually just do all the cars at the same time and dump a bunch of liters into the motive and go from one car. To the next
If I'm doing brake work on just one car, I use the motive dry.

It may be that you do not have to lift your car to do this job. If the wheels in the avatar are the ones on your car (the lobster forks) then you can probably access bot bleeder screws on every wheel in the space that is there. That is one of the reasons why these wide open style wheels are so popular now, especially at track events. Anyway, worth a look. I have my wife pump the pedal. I've never gotten the Motive bleeder to work properly to do the job myself.

Thanks…I didn’t think of that! Regardless, I have a buddy here on this forum who saw this thread I started and he offered to help me just do the flush at his house one day when needed. I’ll prob just do that as it’ll be more fun that way. Thanks all for the comments and advice!

Do all of my cars every 2 years - interestingly the dealer quoted NZD230-ish while fluid change on my BMW was only NZD120-ish....

I like having the stamps in my service book.