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Brake hydraulics quick reference (A5)

Split systems, the valves, and what a leak in one circuit does to the other — the plumbing an A5 question turns on, on one page.

The A5 hydraulic questions almost always turn on one thing: the plumbing. Which wheel is fed by which circuit, what a valve does, and what happens downstream of a leak. Get the layout straight and most of these answer themselves.