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Being very sensitive to rusting brake discs and having fitted a pair of one-year-old Brembos for the May MoT, I notice that Brembo now claim to plate their discs for corrosion resistance.
In our search to escape rusting discs has anyone yet tried the latest Brembos or had notable long-term success with any other make of disc in this ambition?
Its worth a go Tony. I bought
Its worth a go Tony. I bought some D-Sport ones a few years back for the Turbo which claimed the same. Although there was surface rust aster a while it wasnt too bad.
Sounds like you may be the person to test this out for the community
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'12' Plate Mazda MX-5 2.0 litre NC 3.5 Venture Roadster 160BHP
'15' Plate SEAT LEON 184 FR TDI. 240BHP/500nm Torque.
Past: '53' Plate Yellow YRV Turbo Approx. 150BHP
Plated Brembo discs
Well Jon, I'll almost certainly have to change discs again for next year's May Mot, so I may as well try the plated Brembos as they are a good price anyway - unless somebody knows better.
Plating sort of destroys the quick-stopping benefits of cast iron discs, but hey ho. Might as well use stainless to start with - and it would be truly rust-proof and not so quick stopping.
My rusting disc problem is exacerbated by my not using the car very often, giving rust a chance to build up too much before the next pad-scraping brake application.
Occasionally over the years I've been able to recover a pair of discs for the Mot by flat sanding them.
Funny that disc rusting doesn't plague my other more recent but not quite so little-used car!!!!!
YRV Tony
Just take any disc do a local
You can just take any disc do a local elctroplaters and get them zinc plated.
Cost about £10.
Although the Brembos are not expensive.
Then you can also spray some silver / black heat proof paint on top of the zinc on the disc edge and hub area.
Zinc + heat
I don't think that plated disc manufacturers would use zinc as I believe something nasty happens if you heat zinc, as would happen with a zinc-plated brake disc.....or exhaust.
YRV Tony