ATE Super Blue Deemed Illegal for US Distribution
 

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Our government has nothing else better to do, I suppose.

Not that there aren't any other great products out there.. but I like the blue stuff! I just recently re-did the brakes on my 8 (Hawk HPS) and I went with the ATE Super Blue. It made it easier to make sure my lines were flushed of all old fluid, because all I had to do is wait for blue fluid to start squirting out of the bleeder valves! Blue fluid FTW!

Glad I still have a good amount left, sad day that such a great product is taken off the market for no actual reason :(

Feels nice to have about half a liter left sitting in my garage.

No big deal.

They will introduce it as amber or clear.

Unsettling that it took the Feds that long to run them down. I no longer feel safe.

Ken

Do you ever read before you post? The article specifically mentions the amber version that has been out.

You are barely better than monchie

This just in... after 15 years of hard work, the Federal Government has successfully identified the color blue.

So ... it took thosw fat bastards 15 freaking yrs to figure this out .,

And is there even a reason why these stuff has to be either clear or amber?

It's part of a bunch of old laws that attempted to color code different fluids for your car so retards don't mix them up.

As soon as I heard this, first I called ATE and asked them what the shelf life was, which is 5 years sealed or 1 year if opened, if stored indoors in a dry climate controlled area at about 70-80 degrees, then I went to my local supplier and bought all of his stock, which was only 4 cans.

I alternate between this and the ATE Typ 200 which is amber, it's the same stuff but different colors so it's super easy to tell when you're done bleeding.

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Not not much of an achievement.

That's just retarded. *sigh*

I know this wasn't the first retarded law design to protect morons .. but ... argh.

this is just sad.

To be honest I never used ATE blue before, simply because I got my DOT 4 Fluids dirt cheap ... but I always heard great things about it, so I was like what the hell and just ordered 4 L, not even the blue stuff cuz can't find them online anywhere ... so I got the TYP200 stuff ... :) Gonna flush it to my 8 when I'm back to NYC :)

The case in my garage is like liquid gold then, or I'm going to get arrested. One of those things.

This sucks, alternating between this and TYP200 made it super easy to know when you're done bleeding. Anyone have any good alternatives? Is it safe to use a few drops of food dye (or some other dye?) in the TYP 200, or would that mess with the chemical properties/moisture resistance?

To be the devils advocate though, I can see the reasoning behind this. I once bottled some super blue I had bled in a random bottle I found in the recycling bin. Turns out it was my roommates grape juice bottle (I didn't pay attention the label). Dirty super blue looks surprisingly like grape juice. My roommate saw it sitting in the garage and sent me a text asking why I had his juice in the garage. Luckily I responded before he put it back in the fridge and started drinking it. To be fair it was next to some drained oil and coolant waiting to be disposed of so it was pretty obvious.