Carbon Ceramic Brakes and Road Salt

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And so it has begun... the road department dropping ridiculous amounts of grit on the roads in the Lothians!

Not just a covering - oh no, great big piles of the stuff lying on the roads - particularly at junctions / roundabouts! Who would be a winter biker? More chance of losing the front wheel on a grit-drift than a patch of ice, but anyway, I digress... !!!

So, this is my first winter with a car with CC brakes. They had been operating silently, but are starting to grumble a bit in the last couple of days. Nothing too loud - but there is a definite grinding sound when coming to a halt. Coincidence re the timing, or is this absolutely normal when the roads get slathered in 'grit'?

Cheers

[Draxindustries1]

Road salt won't make CC brakes 'grind'.
I'd be checking the pads, it might be just the outers you can see without taking the wheels off but worth a quick look..

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Draxindustries1 said:

Road salt won't make CC brakes 'grind'.
I'd be checking the pads, it might be just the outers you can see without taking the wheels off but worth a quick look..

Thanks

It'll be getting a bath this weekend, so will have a proper look then.

[Smint]

I know nothing about carbon/ceramic brakes, though feel exactly the same as you about the salt fetish in this country.

However, this grumbling you mention, on my humble Forester in the summer when slowing to a final gentle halt several times on a heavy traffic weekend could hear and feel a gurmbling from the front brakes, which was surprising because i'm hot on real brake maintenance (not the squirting of brake cleaner fad) and the pads and discs were probably 1 year old and i am gentle on the brakes anyway.
Naturally assumed i had a low pad or pads, so soon as got home had the brakes out, all pretty well as new...however my pad design have that 2mm or so groove sliced through the middle and this gap was chock full of brake carbon, scraped that out and took the opportunity of servicing the brakes whilst there, why not? all noises ceased.

Just a suggestion for you, probably nothing to do with this and to be fair i've not come across this build up of stuff causing noises before, maybe there is something to be said for grooved discs after all which would help clean the pad grooves out.

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Thanks Smint?