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I recently switched both my bikes to magura mt5 and MT7. Previously had sram guide R on both. The maguras feel much nicer, and they may have more stopping power as well. Although as many people have pointed online, the levers are made of butter. I had a seal broken on the mt7 after a very low speed encouther with a tree. Pressing the lever with little pressure would let it travel without any stopping power. Pull hard and the brake would work. That meant I could only use it on an on /off state, and has been sent for warranty. Today I had a very light washout on a berm, and the top cover of the mt5 lever has split. The brake still works, but I imagine one more crash and it will be gone. As a result I will be replacing the levers on one bike with shimano XT, and then keep one MT5 as a spare. Very disappointed as the brakes feel great, but if you are crash - prone better steer clear.
My sram brakes had gone through some serious crashes with only scratches to show.
and the top cover of the mt5 lever has split
Which bit do you mean - if you mean the cover opposite the lever be very wary as its what retains the bladder, of or goes you'll not be able to use it.
However...
I've had mt6s and trails for years, I'm not exactly a stranger to a crash and only ever broken one in a crash which also buckled a wheel and wrote off a fork.
The cover is split on top, the same area where the lever pivot holds, across the M logo.. I don't know, I might have been unlucky but as I said, the crash was pretty mild, mostly just slided off and washed out. I'll be keeping the mt7s on my FS which I only ride bike park , see how long those last.
Should have gone for Code RSC a much better brake.
Had a set from new on a bike, first thing was the adjuster on one was threaded, so not working, i was swapping over to 1 finger anyway so just ignored that, but yesterday giving it a quick syringe i appear to have removed a thread in the bleed screw, making it spin, honestly, a plastic lever that has threads that weak should not be on this level of expensive brakes, in 20 years of Hope, Shimano, Magura (marta, louise), SRAM and others i've never seen this level of design weakness, ordered a set of XT and will not have 3x Shimano brakes, may try Shigura, but reality is i'm just not even impressed with the caliper.
My m7 and m5s have ally levers
I loved my Magura ... when they blinking work!
Have lost more riding days because of the MT7 / MT5 unreliable so have just booked in to get them swapped to XT 4-pots.
Good luck ...
I had a pair of Gustav's on my Brooklyn - they were awesome. Had MT 5's and MT 4's transferred between a few different bikes - you need a non ham fisted approach to the levers but I've always had good results with them. They are easy to fix with epoxy in cases of clunk****ery.
Aluminium levers on my lads MT5's too. No problems with them so far.