brake freeplay issue help?

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04-03-22, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Overdraft

olive? awesome autocorrect? or new part of the bike I’ve never heard of?

It's a real thing. You mentioned the lines were switched, so it is possible the olive might have been deformed during the switch. Amazon.com : 10PCS Bicycle Brake Olive and Brass Connecting Insert Kit for Shimano BH59 BH90 Bike Hydraulic Disc Brake Hose (BH90) : Sports & Outdoors

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04-03-22, 11:01 PM

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gotcha! like a compression fitting in plumbing. i feel like you’d have to be spectacularly incompetent to screw up your hose connections on both sides but i guess anything’s possible!

04-04-22, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by cxwrench

It wouldn't be a Trek thing, it would be a Shimano thing. It has NOTHING to do w/ which shop sold the bike...ANY Trek dealer will handle warranty issues for ANY Trek bike.

Your local shop won't (most likely) treat it as a warranty because the lines were changed to the opposite levers...it's not their problem and it's not Trek's problem.
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I would hope it would depend on whether the changes were requested, agreed to, and done pre-sale of the bike, though you're right that "improper assembly" is a warrantee exclusion.. which pretty much lets their network of authorized retailers completely off the hook for botching the job. Of course otherwise, Trek covers the warranties on more than just their frame and the Bontrager bits when they sell a complete bike.