Cleaning Brake Discs

[merlin]

Dont forget to tell us what u use

Yup.

And give those tyres a good scrub with warm soapy water too, it brings em up a treat

 

[Baker]

Steameh.

Why can't you just use the brakes? Using polish or any other kind of cleaning fluid on them isn't a good idea..

 

[Tax Evader]

LOL - cleaning brake discs...

This has got to be the daftest thing I've read, since reading about that clown who'd painted each of his tyres with slippy tyre 'black' - including the faces.

It did make me smile though, just when I needed that.. which is nice

 

[moss]

Get some silver paint and spray them. Will look nice then

I remember sometime ago, some posted a link to another forum where some guy had actually done that


Edit, I also remember the story of some guy on an Evo forum asking if he needed special paint to paint on his intercooler, due to the heat

 

[Ev0]

LOL - cleaning brake discs...

This has got to be the daftest thing I've read, since reading about that clown who'd painted each of his tyres with slippy tyre 'black' - including the faces.

It did make me smile though, just when I needed that.. which is nice

LOL I remember that, wasn't it in the US and some guy in his lexus, or his dads lexus?

 

[Burned_Alive]

LOL - cleaning brake discs...

This has got to be the daftest thing I've read, since reading about that clown who'd painted each of his tyres with slippy tyre 'black' - including the faces.

It did make me smile though, just when I needed that.. which is nice

Is that the one with the MR2 that subsequently stuffed it into the back of a Type-R and a VW? On video no less.

 

[Enfield]

You could try some brasso. That would work.

 

[Tax Evader]

Ev0 / Burned Alive - it could have been either, I'm not sure now - all I remember is the ridiculously stupid act of painting the tyres

 

[lordedmond]

I thought that a good rub over with wet and dry 200 grit followed with a coat of oil to prevent further rusting

 

[Dangerous]

Oh my lord I hear a tub of lard will help

 

[Tax Evader]

Or Elbow Grease.

 

[cymatty]

Or Chesse

 

[Phantom]

you do realise they'll just rust up again?

 

[thebrasso]

You could try some brasso. That would work.

That could hurt a bit (people call me brasso btw)

Seriously, braking should clear surface rust. Using chemicals on the surface of your disc is a bad idea...

 

[cymatty]

That could hurt a bit (people call me brasso btw)

Seriously, braking should clear surface rust. Using chemicals on the surface of your disc is a bad idea...

MM2 "hi im thebrasso" lol.

 

[thebrasso]

MM2 "hi im thebrasso" lol.

In my defence a) hardly anybody calls me Andy and b) If I walked in there and said "Hi, I'm Andy" you would all look at me and think Who's this big yetti?

 

[cymatty]

In my defence a) hardly anybody calls me Andy and b) If I walked in there and said "Hi, I'm Andy" you would all look at me and think Who's this big yetti?

True, was still funny though.

Keep your eyes out for the mm3 thread.

 

[MrWhippy]

Why can't some people just answer the question?

If I hadn't of mention disc brakes and put "I wanna clean some rust of metal" would I have got the answer I wanted?

ah see if you'd have told us there was a specific answer you were wanting us to give then we could have got there a lot quicker, rather than us wandering aimlessly with our own opinions

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and

1) don't rub too hard with wire wool, if you score them you'll just make them less efficient. ideally the mating surfaces should do just that, mate perfectly. there's no point ruffing them up.

2) be carefull not to go breathing in brake dust

 

[chopchop]

once u use the brakes, the rust will get rubbed off.

 

[Dogbreath]

Why can't some people just answer the question?

If I hadn't of mention disc brakes and put "I wanna clean some rust of metal" would I have got the answer I wanted?

I don't know, what was the answer you wanted? Seems a bit pointless asking a question if you know what answer you want?