Security warning over non-compliant brake fluid in UK market
Security organisation Verification of Lubricant Specificatins (VLS) has issued a second warning a couple of non-compliant brake fluid that it says remains to be obtainable within the UK market.
It pertains to a inventory of Mannol Brake Fluid DOT 4 3002 which VLS first investigated after a receiving a grievance in 2023. That led to VLS independently procuring a pattern of the product inside the UK and finishing its personal impartial testing during which the product failed to satisfy specification limits acknowledged within the US Federal Motor Car Security Requirements (FMVSS) 116 DOT 4.
VLS requested the product distributor Lubriage, buying and selling as Mannol UK and Eire, to take motion on account of the take a look at outcomes them, and Lubriage subsequently suggested VLS it had stopped promoting the product within the UK market and requested different distributors to quarantine the affected batch quantity till additional discover and never resell it.
VLS nevertheless stated it didn’t see any proof of the product being quarantined or withdrawn from the related distributors or any try to contact finish customers who may need bought the product by means of their distributors to recollect it on the time, and it handed the case on to Buying and selling Requirements officers.
In a latest evaluate of the case, VLS procured and examined a brand new product pattern, which it discovered was additionally non-compliant in opposition to the DOT 4 specification efficiency declare. It stated that primarily based on the outcomes obtained, the potential penalties of utilizing the product may very well be elevated stopping distance, accelerated put on, and braking system degradation.
David Wright, VLS’s firm secretary, stated: “The six-month evaluate pattern has a date of manufacture of twenty fifth Could 2024, which is after the date after we suggested them of the problem.
“We’re, due to this fact, gravely involved that adequate motion has not been taken to guard driver security.
“We urge motor elements, mechanics and finish customers alike to keep away from utilizing the product because it might put drivers susceptible to private damage, accident and even danger lack of life.”
VLS will once more refer the findings to Buying and selling Requirements.
