Brake Fluids

[Tool Pants]

For all you freeway queens. 2 different stories as to what Porsche uses at the factory when the car is made and what is sold at the parts counter, and for all we know they may have multiple suppliers.

This is what your dealer sells.

This is the Ate Type 200 amber. Note, the numbers are a bit higher than what the dealer sells.

This is Ate super blue 'racing' fluid. Same specs as the Type 200. But due to the blue dye it cannot have the DOT label.

[KevinC]

Hi Jeff - I don't see any pictures. Are you saying that some dealers literally sell Ate Type 200 as the replacement brake fluid, not a can relabeled as Porsche?

[Tool Pants]

The pictures are with 986Host so they are not working, so I moved them.

Porsche sells their branded fluid which I believed to be Pentosin Super DOT 4. Until recently the parts list identified it as Pentosin and the shop manual says Super DOT 4. But then again, Ate also sells a brake fluid called Super DOT4 and the specs are identical to my first picture. Who knows?

Stevens Creek Porsche of course sells the Porsche branded fluid. They also sell the Ate blue. The 2 guys in parts I spoke to said they do not carry the Ate amber.

I suspect they carry the blue to top up a car that already has it because so many local owners use blue. Plus Peter uses the blue in his own cars. I have no idea what other dealers do.