I'm about to fit new to me discs & callipers. The discs have been spray painted black - all over. Do I need to remove this prior to running them? I'm thinking about the contact surface

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No your brakes will clean themselves off, as long as its not majorly caked on.

 

Are you sure about that? What about impregnating the pads with paint?

 

you should clean the contact surface as much as you can.

 

Yeah as the pads aren`t porous. The excess paint will scrape off or burn off, I had overspray on many many a disk and its always burnt off.
I think you`d have a mess if it was really thick and I`d say to scrape it off, but if its only thin just take it for a drive and it will come off.

 

I thought the paint might contaminate the pad surface. Might just flash them with wet n dry

 

quite a lot of new discs come with paint on usally gray? we just drive it off?

 

Thanks, I'm fitting them soon, for what it's worth I think I'll waz the paint off