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I fitted SS brake hose and fittings to my motorbike over 30 years ago, they still look like new.
My other car which I have owned since 2007 regularly gets an advisory about brake pipes (it has solid pipes round to the calliper and flexible pipes up to the car body) and they have to be changed every 4 or 5 years just because of corrosion.
If I was doing a major brake overhaul on a car I was planning to keep for a few years I would consider SS hose, if it was available at reasonable cost just to cut down on the replacement cost.
Robin
2020 blue SZ5 (one of the last to be registered in the UK)
Ex 2011 Blue Jimny SZ4
Northumberland Jimny Blog
There are plenty of firms around, luckily I have a small engineering company 5 miles away, I just take my old ones over & ask them to make them up with the correct ends on. But there's a seller on Fleecebay doing both standard & extended ones.
If you contact David Round at llama 4x4 he will make braided hoses for you
He supplies jimnybits with the extended front hoses for lifted Jimny's
If you want standard length just tell him you want Jimny fittings and let him know what lengths
I went on the web and asked the question "which is better, SS or basic rubber" The responses I got from a number of sites ranged from no difference at all to a marginal improvement if you did short circuit racing or similar where you had to brake hard repeatedly. There was also comments regarding poor quality control in both materials used and shoddy workmanship in assembly.
This is why I have made the suggestion, check comments online.
By the way, Martin Lines has done a video about fitting vented discs on a Gen.4. At the end he advises people that he wasn't going to fit the system permanently because his car didn't need it.
My LC was still on the original hoses after 25 years. No MoT inspector ever queried them and the brakes never gave me any worries. I hope this answers your query.
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