My discs have chicken pox?

mrk · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:37

What the heck? they were nice and shiny couple weeks back?

squiffy · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:38

Tried braking?

Tesla · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:38

When was the last time you drove the car?

Rich1988 · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:39

discs rust up almost instantly when they are not used, when you break again the rust is rubbed away, nothing to worry about

Hunders · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:39

Its just a bit of rust, it will go after a little drive.

Scania · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:39

My truck's wheels look like that in the morning after a nights rain.

Now't to worry about tbh.

mrk · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:42

I drove quite heavily yesterday so never expected rust to form so quickly :eek:

it has been raining like mad though this morning :/

squiffy · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:47

mrk said:
I drove quite heavily yesterday so never expected rust to form so quickly it has been raining like mad though this morning :/

It's untreated "open" steel so it'll start to rust within 20 minutes. You could oil the discs, but then you'll drive off the cliff when you need brakes

mrk · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:54

I understand now, just never experienced this before

loltim · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:56

mrk said:
I understand now, just never experienced this before

I find that hard to believe, did your last car not have brake discs?

mrk · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:01

Tim said:
I find that hard to believe, did your last car not have brake discs?

On the old car no rear discs but fronts yes, but no alloys so I never got to see them. I never really look at disc brakes either, unless they're on a scoob or something sporty where you cannot move your eyes away from them and the blue/red callipers.

Also normally every week I wash my car but before I do I always go to the shops and town etc then come home and wash it so as said above, they would have rubbed away after driving!

Scania · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:07

squiffy said:
You could oil the discs, but then you'll drive off the cliff when you need brakes

Class.

Zip · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:28

Ive never had any of my disks rust :confused:

Must be your salty roads :confused:

MaXXeH · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:30

lol go out there with a water pistol and spray them, go back about 6hs later and there will be rust. it is the fine bits of metal that sit on the disk from braking

Slam62 · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:36

Zip said:
Ive never had any of my disks rust

Must be your salty roads

yeah right

laissez-faire · 15 Jul 2007 at 18:34

Slam62 said:
yeah right

It is nothing to do with salty roads but some discs are just made out of different stuff that doesn't rust. For example on my boss' BMW they never appear to corrode... On my Golf it happens almost instantly.

Mark A · 15 Jul 2007 at 18:41

When i went to motor point to look for a car every car had totally rusted disks. They looked a mess really but i suppose theres nothing that can be done about it.

"andy" · 15 Jul 2007 at 18:50

machine yourself some stainless steel ones

mrk · 15 Jul 2007 at 19:02

Well after a quick drive around town and to a cousins house the discs are as shiny as a fork! I like shiny

I also managed to almost hit a stupid driver who randomly pulled out of a parallel parking bay as I was driving past at 30mph, braked very hard even with abs the tyres screeched to a halt for a second.

This is the stupid driver - parking area on left where he/she (probably a she) pulled out of as I was passing.

wonder_lander · 15 Jul 2007 at 19:08

Man those wheels are very clean, I'll bring mine over to you to do