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" Senior Editor Mike Allen answers readers&amp;#039; car questions. Q: My college-bound daughter has a 10 year old Ford Mustang. On Saturday afternoon we had the front brakes replaced as well as new tires. Sunday afternoon while she was driving to college on the freeway and beginning to slow as she approached a traffic jam, she found that she had no brakes at all. Thankfully she was able to get to the median and avoided an accident. The same mechanic said the line broke, and although changing the front brakes may have put pressure on the line, he had no way of detecting that it would or could happen, and had no responsibility for the matter and charged us for the new brake line. Is he correct? Was there anything he could have checked to prevent a potential accident? Thank you. SHERRI BONNER A: Yes, he is correct. No, there isn&amp;#039;t anything he could have checked. Although he may have been a little more sympathetic. And that Mustang has dual-circuit brakes. The failure of a single brake line should have reduced the braking capability, but not to zero. Q: My Ford has 250,000 miles and when I get about 50 miles from home the check engine light comes on, and a few more miles down the road, about 10, the engine will shut off. I let it cool down and it will crank up and it will do this until I get back home. Any suggestions? THOMAS DULANEY A: Put a scan tool on the thing and find out why the light is coming on. Q: Regarding &amp;quot;fuel savers,&amp;quot; have you tested Hy-Drive&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hydrogen generating system&amp;quot;? Visit www.hy-drive.com. What are your thoughts? Kindest regards. PAUL A: Bogus. Q: I am trying to keep the oil rich countries from getting richer and would like to use Synthetic Oil made here in the USA. I am told that they last longer--up to 24,000 miles with regular filter changes. Can I realy go this long or is this just hype? Thanks for your help. DEAN FORREST A: Hype. And it all comes from petroleum-based chemicals, anyway. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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