Man paints his brake discs

[Triumph Man]

I know I shouldn't be bhy about people on other fora, but umm...!

http://forum.bmw5.co.uk/topic/101007-gave-the-535i...

[mike-r]

Surprising amount of replies in there not actually acknowledging it. Like a little corner of the internet reserved for stupidity.

[y2blade]

BMW owners..gotta love'em.

[Triumph Man]

mike-r said:

Surprising amount of replies in there not actually acknowledging it. Like a little corner of the internet reserved for stupidity.

They are pulling him up on his tyres more than anything.

[kambites]

I'd take those daft "calliper" things off too if I was him. It'd look much better without them breaking up the symmetry and there would be nothing to scrape off his lovely new paint.

[Megaflow]

I used to work for a company that produced discs, they started painting them because people complained that the centres went rusty. Hondas discs were mounted to a hub and finished skimmed which cleaned the paint off the brake surface, others went on the car like it. First application of the brakes and it's gone.

[Spare tyre]

wouldnt it disappear pretty quickly once you'd braked the first time

[jon-]

Megaflow said:

I used to work for a company that produced discs, they started painting them because people complained that the centres went rusty. Hondas discs were mounted to a hub and finished skimmed which cleaned the paint off the brake surface, others went on the car like it. First application of the brakes and it's gone.

It's like people who have kittens if you get WD40 anywhere near the brake discs.

Sure, it's not ideal, but assuming you don't live at the top of a 1:1 incline, it'll burn off so quickly it won't be an issue.

[t1grm]

To be fair someone asks him that first post and his reply is:

"I just keyed it with 240 sand paper and used aerosol wheel silver. Any of the paint that goes on the disc itself just gets taken straight off when you brake and it just makes the wheels and brakes themselfs look fresh and new"

So he is just trying to clean up the hub and callipers. Nothing wrong with that IMHO

[Trevor450]

EBC USR discs come painted. It wears off the first time the brakes are applied.

[jon-]

Purity14 said:

jon- said:

It's like people who have kittens if you get WD40 anywhere near the brake discs.

Sure, it's not ideal, but assuming you don't live at the top of a 1:1 incline, it'll burn off so quickly it won't be an issue.

Id rather have a think layer of dried paint on my discs than some wd40 on my disks though!

I've had WD40 on my front bike discs (by mistake), I could only feel the difference for the first wheel rotation of a very careful slow stop.

I was actually surprised at how quickly it made no difference.

[Monkeylegend]

Much ado about nothing methinks.

Mercedes supply their brake discs painted. Guess what,as soon as you use the brakes it rubs off and they look nice and shiney.

[t400ble]

Pagid ones are painted in the same way

[jimmy the hat]

Yep, OP you're rubbish at being bhy. I'm sure you'll take no offence to that.

MTec supply them in Black or Silver. Had some black ones on my 206, look OK so I bought some for the Anglia.



The logic being that the coating prevents them from rusting until they're ready to be used.

Cheers, Jim

[thehammer]

Mini also supply their cars new with painted discs.

[scarble]

I think it's perhaps more frightening that he's gone and bought Nankangs.

I'm sure the paint will rub off but it will be reduced. I wonder if he's painted the pistons too? That could be an issue.
I really don't understand it, I just don't know why you'd bother.

[Triumph Man]

jimmy the hat said:

Yep, OP you're rubbish at being bhy. I'm sure you'll take no offence to that.

MTec supply them in Black or Silver. Had some black ones on my 206, look OK so I bought some for the Anglia.



The logic being that the coating prevents them from rusting until they're ready to be used.

Cheers, Jim

None taken!

[AdamGP]

Just a lazy/time saving way of painting the hub, so yeah maybe you shouldn't bh in future.

My Mtec discs are the Silver edition, same principal

[MGZRod]

Well I've learnt something today. Wouldn't have thought painting your discs was anything other than idiotic before.

[Superhoop]

And the issue is??

As soon as he uses them, the paint will come of the face of the discs, but the rusty centres will remain silver and look a lot better than the corroded centres he had before.

Most new discs are supplied with a painted surface...

Score for bhy post 0/10