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What's the best way to get rid of it? Or is buying new brake rotors the only way to go? I recently plastidipped my rims black and the rust is too noticeable now...
I had some crazy bad rust on mine, ended up using a wire brush on the dremel to buff off the surface rust (you could sand as well) and coated the non contact areas with a rust inhibitor paint called "rust bullet", hit the calipers with a clean silver while I was in there. Worked great and has held up with no issues.
I had some crazy bad rust on mine, ended up using a wire brush on the dremel to buff off the surface rust (you could sand as well) and coated the non contact areas with a rust inhibitor paint called "rust bullet", hit the calipers with a clean silver while I was in there. Worked great and has held up with no issues.
I'm not too educated on car parts... in your first pic, is that the rotor? Mine kinda looks like that. Basically, will replacing my rotor get rid of my problems. If so, how much am I looking at to replace those? I have a '11 g37xS with akebono brakes
All those top 4 pics are the rotors, and would be fairly easy to clean them up, mask off most of the pad contact area (you want to mask only almost all the pad contact area except about a 1/4" out from the center, this will ensure a nice clean cut line when the pads clean off the paint. New rotors shouldn't be needed unless they have excessive runout, or a damaged and too thin to be machined.
New rotors of OEM quality will cost about $300.
Since you aren't versed on brakes it's best to have a friend that has done brake work to remove and reinstall the rotors, it's easy, but best to have someone that's done them before.
All those top 4 pics are the rotors, and would be fairly easy to clean them up, mask off most of the pad contact area (you want to mask only almost all the pad contact area except about a 1/4" out from the center, this will ensure a nice clean cut line when the pads clean off the paint. New rotors shouldn't be needed unless they have excessive runout, or a damaged and too thin to be machined.
New rotors of OEM quality will cost about $300.
Since you aren't versed on brakes it's best to have a friend that has done brake work to remove and reinstall the rotors, it's easy, but best to have someone that's done them before.
thanks i'll look up some youtube videos just to make sure i don't **** something up haha
08-09-2016, 12:36 AM
