bonesetter

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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

Cheers

Jimbob

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

alcazar

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

goffemannen

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

Jimbob

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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.

bonesetter

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

scooby800

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

bonesetter

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