Will have pictures for this tomorrow evening, but in the meantime I was just curious if anyone else has an extremely hard and irremovable black substance on their rims? It's been on there since I first bought the car and I've tried a few things to get it off but it's super solid and does not want to come off. Anybody have an idea?
Pictures of what I mean, tomorrow evening.
It could be from road work, I've had something like that on other rims that just doesn't come off and I know it got there from going on newly paved roads.
Red wine does not spray well onto a monitor. :lol:
Can I be drunkenly bumbling technical [ish] I'm having issues with 2 sets of pads, one set is full ceramic and only works when really really pressed; the other wierd hybrid friction stuff leaves sticky bits all over the discs and creates 'warping' pulses in light braking but is OK under load also.
The only pads that are any good [for my use] are the old skool dusty Ferodos and the cheapy cheerful Pagid [both equally dusty].
Will have pictures for this tomorrow evening, but in the meantime I was just curious if anyone else has an extremely hard and irremovable black substance on their rims? It's been on there since I first bought the car and I've tried a few things to get it off but it's super solid and does not want to come off. Anybody have an idea?
Pictures of what I mean, tomorrow evening.
Haha well damn, I'll be sure to get those things off as soon as I can.
Anyway, I don't know wth it is. It's pretty rough, but other than that it's hard to describe so I guess pictures are still needed.
Ive got some black on one wheel on the outer edge about halfway around the circumfrence. I've detirmined someone repainted a body panel and didnt tape over the rim and so the black is overspray.
get a soft scrubbing brush (perhaps even a toothbrush) and windex make sure you get some wheel wax though on the sucker once its clean it's probably break dust and road junk... because i had a tough time getting all that crap off
sounds like tar...when i got my car the wheels probably had never been cleaned. There were huge lumps of tar buildups that had to be almost scraped off. A lot of wheel cleaner, soap, and multiple washings finally got the stuff off. I spent a good hour or two on each wheel.
If it is tar there are some items in your kitchen that may be successful in removing it. Butter, creamy peanut butter, or vegetable oil applied to the tar and left for 12 to 24 hours should soften in and make it easier to remove. If that doesn't work there are a few items from the garage that may work. WD-40, kerosene, or mineral spirits applied directly to the tar should soften it up and make it easier to remove. WD-40, kerosene, or mineral spirits will most likely remove wax from your car as well.
i thought that was down to holding the car on the brakes when the discs are hot causing the surface of the pad to amalgamate with the disc ? but i too have this problem :evil:
i thought that was down to holding the car on the brakes when the discs are hot causing the surface of the pad to amalgamate with the disc ? but i too have this problem :evil:
That's the most common cause, certainly I think the root of problems with mine, but as you can imagine, over time you get patches of this around the rotors [hence sticky bits all over the disc - I was drunk ;oops: ]
The real pi55er though is very dusty pads seem not to cause this as bad :roll: but you end up with crust black wheels.
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