Newer vehicles are not made as well as the older vehicles. Some of the PS systems these days will lock up on ya at any time due to contaminated fluid.....these things wear quite rapidly with old fluids. Brake systems are also prone to damage from old fluid...much more so than older cars without ABS/Traction control, etc.
There are tests for this....some simply use a PH paper, some actually take a sample of the fluid and analyze it. Would I pay them to do it? Prolly not, but I can do that myself. If you don't have the equipment to bleed your brakes, or flush you PS system, it might be a good idea to let someone else do it. You do NOT have to let the guys doing your oil-change do it....it's not a law.....
btw...they would normally flush the brake system completely, and the PS system would also have the hoses removed, and the system completely flushed. This is itself CAN cause problems, by loosening up stuff that was happy being stuck to the sides of the R&P....
oh...and with the advent of electronic flashers, the flicker fluid is not longer needed on newer cars....
|UPDATED|10/15/2012 10:04:04 AM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
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