Brake disc skimming
Discussion
Local garage just bought the whole setup to skim brake discs on the car. 10 mins per side, machine coming next week and Im first in the queue! Mill Lane Garage in Kingsley Cheshire if anyone is interested.
PM if you want number. Dont know how much it will cost yet, but much cheaper (and better imho) then another set of discs!
On the racecar, once a disc has been through its heat cycle and 'warped', when skimmed they rarely EVER go again
PM if you want number. Dont know how much it will cost yet, but much cheaper (and better imho) then another set of discs!
On the racecar, once a disc has been through its heat cycle and 'warped', when skimmed they rarely EVER go again
Alfatim said:
Local garage just bought the whole setup to skim brake discs on the car. 10 mins per side, machine coming next week and Im first in the queue! Mill Lane Garage in Kingsley Cheshire if anyone is interested.
I think pretty well all garages can do this, but it's not commonly done due to cheapness of disks. The little garage in Tarvin has the kit. Honda suggest skimming disks as a service measure so I presume all their dealerships can do it.
vrooom said:
what the point of doing those. as seeing the disc are £30. unless you are skinflint.
Well, discs on my car are a bit more than that. However, new discs seemed to last only a short time before the friction hotspots returned. After they were skimmed, they lasted twice the distance before the symptoms returned again, and I only paid a nominal fee for the skimming.Nothing wrong with this. Why would you pay more for new discs when you can do this?
Brake disc skimming was common practice 25 plus years ago. The easy availability of cheap replacement discs sort of killed it though. Haven't heard of disc skimming being offered as a service since the mid 90's...until now.
I remember going to a trade show with a friend and his Dad (who was a mechanic) and a tool company rep was demonstrating a machine that skimmed discs while still on the car. This was in 1988 so I don't remember the specifics of it (non-directional resurfacing?), but I remember the cost of the equipment was high enough for my friend's Dad to rubbish the rep and his demo as the time it took to remove the disc wasn't worth the higher cost of the machine.
Who could have imagined that 23 years later such a machine would have PHers queueing up!.
I remember going to a trade show with a friend and his Dad (who was a mechanic) and a tool company rep was demonstrating a machine that skimmed discs while still on the car. This was in 1988 so I don't remember the specifics of it (non-directional resurfacing?), but I remember the cost of the equipment was high enough for my friend's Dad to rubbish the rep and his demo as the time it took to remove the disc wasn't worth the higher cost of the machine.
Who could have imagined that 23 years later such a machine would have PHers queueing up!.
There's a short thread about it here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
..and one of the posts has a link to a directory of garages with the kit.
..and one of the posts has a link to a directory of garages with the kit.
I just don't see it being worth while unless your discs are very expensive to start with.
And very expensive discs usually come off very expensive cars which tend to get used "enthusiastically."
And people who use their cars "enthusiastically" would normally just prefer new discs anyway...
At the other end of the market, your everday, run of the mill daily driver/family car is only going to cost £30 or so for a set of discs anyway, so why not just buy new?
And very expensive discs usually come off very expensive cars which tend to get used "enthusiastically."
And people who use their cars "enthusiastically" would normally just prefer new discs anyway...
At the other end of the market, your everday, run of the mill daily driver/family car is only going to cost £30 or so for a set of discs anyway, so why not just buy new?
redtwin said:
Brake disc skimming was common practice 25 plus years ago. The easy availability of cheap replacement discs sort of killed it though. Haven't heard of disc skimming being offered as a service since the mid 90's...until now.
I remember going to a trade show with a friend and his Dad (who was a mechanic) and a tool company rep was demonstrating a machine that skimmed discs while still on the car. This was in 1988 so I don't remember the specifics of it (non-directional resurfacing?), but I remember the cost of the equipment was high enough for my friend's Dad to rubbish the rep and his demo as the time it took to remove the disc wasn't worth the higher cost of the machine.
Who could have imagined that 23 years later such a machine would have PHers queueing up!.
dittoI remember going to a trade show with a friend and his Dad (who was a mechanic) and a tool company rep was demonstrating a machine that skimmed discs while still on the car. This was in 1988 so I don't remember the specifics of it (non-directional resurfacing?), but I remember the cost of the equipment was high enough for my friend's Dad to rubbish the rep and his demo as the time it took to remove the disc wasn't worth the higher cost of the machine.
Who could have imagined that 23 years later such a machine would have PHers queueing up!.
back when the only available replacments were factory ones it was common, not heard of it for years either.
I replace 30 or 40 discs a year, modern cars tend to use harder pads nowdays and the discs wear quicker than back in the day when a car would use a set of pads eevery 20k, it's not uncommon to change pads for the first time at 50k nowdays and discs at the same time usually.
Mind you most cars i see are low end motors where discs are £30 a pair so it's not a worry.
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