I doubt many people do this as proactive maintenance.

Are you going regular hoses or fancy stainless?

 

just regular rubber hoses from AB.

Range Rover Sport Brake Hose Kit With Castrol Brake Fluid

Need to replace the brake hoses on your Range Rover Sport or Sport Supercharged? Here are the 6 replacement brake hoses, along with Castrol brake fluid, that you will use for proper service maintenance.

www.roverparts.com

I might even change all the original rubber coolant hoses before the winter.

 

I rebuilt some four piston Brembo calipers off a 2006 RRS and rebuilt my stock rear calipers using Frenkit components. Not very expensive and good quality, made in Spain if I remember correctly. I had to order two kits for each, one being the piston, seals and bleeders and the other being the hardware (front caliper: pins and clips, rear calipers: slide pins).

Replacing the various coolant hoses is always smart, but don’t overlook any inlets or outlets made of plastic. The outlet on my 3.0 TDV6 developed a split on a seam which was losing a surprising amount of coolant yet rather hard to detect at first. I’ll be changing my oil cooler/filter housing and breather plus all associated seals shortly. If the oil cooler on mine fails I can end up with oil in the coolant and/or coolant in the oil. Cheaper to do it as preventative maintenance with my upcoming oil change than the alternative.

 

I rebuilt some four piston Brembo calipers off a 2006 RRS and rebuilt my stock rear calipers using Frenkit components. Not very expensive and good quality, made in Spain if I remember correctly. I had to order two kits for each, one being the piston, seals and bleeders and the other being the hardware (front caliper: pins and clips, rear calipers: slide pins).
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I rebuilt my front passenger brembo caliper couple of years ago using centric pistons part# 146.46011 and seals 143.22007. All the parts fit perfectly. A lot cheaper than buying a new caliper.

I am OCD with preventive maintenance. Don’t want my vehicle to break down in middle of the road because I’m too lazy to maintenance the vehicle. Majority of the work I do myself. Thanks to YouTube.

 

I looked into going stainless, but opted to stick with aluminum, albeit hard anodized instead of plated. Plus finding the correct size in Europe was proving difficult. May take a look at those pistons next time I need to rebuild though.

 

Goodridge and Stoptech makes SS braided brake line for our RRS. Unfortunately I dont know is there any fitment issues. Didn’t want to take any chances and decided to get rubber hoses from AB.

 

I was talking about pistons, their website says they’re steel. Is that not correct?

For brake lines I’ll probably go with these:

Land Rover Range Rover Sport MK1 All Models 2005-2013 Brake Lines HEL Stainless Steel Braided

The HEL Performance Land Rover Range Rover Sport MK1 braided brake line kit has been manufactured in-house, assembled, and machine-crimped directly onto high-quality stainless steel braided hose ensuring an exact match to your standard brake hoses. Ea

auto.helperformance.com

Readily available here in Poland which is a big plus.

 

All of those "stainless" goods still depend on one family or another of reinforced elastomers under the braid to actually manage the fluid & pressures.

Upside is an expectation of improved protection against chafing abrasion, thrown gravel impacts or the like.

Downside is one can no longer see cracking, age, or exposure to chemicals degradation that might impair the "working" part of the hose.

My view is that they might be 'at their best' only in racing, hardball off-road, or the like, where one might expect MORE frequent replacement than usual. Not less often.

I was talking about pistons, their website says they’re steel. Is that not correct?

Dunno.

But "in general.."

A(ny) Iron (alloy) caliper body is best mated with steel pistons.

A(ny) Aluminium (alloy) caliper body, aluminium pistons.

Compatible galvanics and thermal coefficient of expansion considerations.

Not that it is a hard rule, nor always followed. Just lower-risk of disappointment.

 

I’m planning to order the brake hose kit from Atlantic British. I think it is definitely overdue for replacement, still the original 15 years old brakes hoses.