This has been bugging me, but a few weeks ago the drivers side brake line went out on my car. It was the hard brake line that goes into the caliper.
I took it to the closest shop, which was Pep Boys. The part was ordered and the next day it was fixed. Cost was about $240 total.

I have an 08' X and the mileage was right at 36,550 when it happened.
Any faith that Mitsu may cut me a "brake" and reimburse me for what I paid on the repair?

Lastly, this just happened again to my passenger side hard brake line. Which in this case it was cracked near the banjo bolt. I have yet to get this fixed and I am at 37,600 miles now.

I cannot afford to do anything right now. Any suggestions?

Car has wider tires and is lowered on fortune auto coils.

 

The only people that I have seen complain about the brake lines have fortune auto Coilovers. No way Mitsubishi would cover that. You have Coilovers and wheels.

 

i had my passenger side brake line break on me, i am also running the same coilover.

 

I wonder how important that missing bracket is.. maybe that is somehow leading to extra vibration/movement and causing the line to break over time?

 

thats what i was thinking how mine broke, but what i end up doing was getting a rear brake line of the X and using it up front, seems to work so far.

 

sounds like your answer right here.

different suspension geometry/travel/spring rate = flexion in places the stock pieces don't expect = breakage that isn't covered by warranty.

 

Has anyone asked fortune auto about this problem? I've seen atleast 4 or 5 people say that they're brake line has broke and as far as I remember EVERY one of them was running FA coils. I was thinking about buying them when they first came out but when I heard they didn't have the brake line bracket I decided to pass..

 

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a set of StopTech front brake lines? If it's the hard lines that are breaking then that'd fix it. They aren't expensive when compared to OEM prices.

 

where to get these lines at?
I need to get this fixed also since I am selling the car and because Mitsu is saying the part could be on back order and coming from Japan.

$260 to fix from Mitsu

 

I definitely want to see what aftermarket front lines can be used to replace the front hard lines

 

I remember looking at this when I put my coils on and deciding it wasn't really a big deal. All shocks are going to have the hardline attached to the shock body whether theres a mount or not, so not sure how that would break the hardline. Again its been a while so I cant picture exactly what it looks like, just doesn't make sense to me. I do think that the hardline could be totally replaced by a ss brakeline though which would be significantly cheaper.

 

The hardline for the front is about $23 for the OEM. The rest is the install and bleeding that the dealership is doing.

In regards to an aftermarket setup for the hardline, if one of the evo x owners here is using a rear hardline for the front and its working then would the aftermarket lines with the banjo bolt for the rear be able to be used on the front caliper then?

 

you can order a set of the rear brake line and use it for the front. The rear line is long enough and it also bypass the rubber line and the hard line off the caliper. Yeah apperantly i order the last OEM hard line they had, and the funny thing is Mitsubishi wanted to buy it back from me. But yeah you can use the rear line off the X and it is easy replace, you just have to bleed the brakes after you are done which is also easy to do.


aftermarket front brake line usually replace the rubber line thats up front not the line off the caliper.

 

How exactly did it brake and how do you have yours set up on the coilovers.....a lot of coil overs don't have brackets up front for the lines.

 

Here's the thing, if the banjo bolt or rear oem line works for the front then wouldnt an aftermarket setup that has the banjo bolt and line for the rear work for the fronts?