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My first Insight was a 2001 and I bought it in 2015. I lived in Ontario at the time, which is where the Insight had spent its entire life. A previous owner (IC user rhall) had replaced the fuel line shortly before I bought it, but he advised me to do the brake lines because they were rusting in multiple places and it was only a matter of time, and in Ontario you need a safety inspection anyway when you get a new (to you) car.
My cousin and I replaced all the lines, he did most of the hard work to be honest, but we used new coated line and cut, bent, and flared everything ourselves. It was pretty hard, but it is doable. If you make your own lines like we did you can save a lot of money but it is extra work. We took the old lines out and tried our best to bend the new ones to approximate the shape of the old ones. It doesn't look as pretty as OEM but we got the job done and they still work great 50k miles later. I don't own the car anymore but I actually worked on it yesterday, it's still in good shape.
At the time the fasteners on this car were about 14 years old, surprisingly nothing broke except a couple push pin clips. But these days when you work on a 2000 Insight like I think the few extra years has finally started putting the oldest fasteners to the test and nowadays most or the plastic fasteners are getting pretty brittle.
My cousin and I replaced all the lines, he did most of the hard work to be honest, but we used new coated line and cut, bent, and flared everything ourselves. It was pretty hard, but it is doable. If you make your own lines like we did you can save a lot of money but it is extra work. We took the old lines out and tried our best to bend the new ones to approximate the shape of the old ones. It doesn't look as pretty as OEM but we got the job done and they still work great 50k miles later. I don't own the car anymore but I actually worked on it yesterday, it's still in good shape.
At the time the fasteners on this car were about 14 years old, surprisingly nothing broke except a couple push pin clips. But these days when you work on a 2000 Insight like I think the few extra years has finally started putting the oldest fasteners to the test and nowadays most or the plastic fasteners are getting pretty brittle.