How to fix your rusty brake discs! C63 AMG DIY
2024 ж. 16 Мам.
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Ever wondered how easy it is to get rid of that brake disc surface rust that's ruining the look of your shiny W204 C63?
Don't want to spend £800 on a new set of rotors? Here's how you can do it for less than £20..
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There wasn’t a lot of overspray, but I’d recommend masking off around the wheel arch too!
Definitely liked the simplicity you showed and the instruction. I've got a different car & plan to do this before winter arrives.
Did you clean and ceramic coat the wheels when they were off the car?
Great work! Your videos are excellent; concise yet comprehensive with good video of the job at hand. Your relaxed manner with an appropriate amount of clear instructions make the videos very easy to watch and builds confidence, thank you!
Thanks mate! Always found cars very therapeutic to work on.. (as long as there’s a good supply of tea) everyone’s a winner.
Another great vid. Love watching the work on the beast!
Looks great. Good as new. Good job 👏
Just came here for the start up sound effect - such a beast. Nice tidy up job, and great use of the Sun.
Haha, I heard one with no mufflers on the other day 😲
Perfect! Excellent video! Lovely car to 😍
Beautiful! U just cleared my headache I will be doing this to my car thank you lad
Great result! Put Gyeon Rim on te sprayed surface and it will stay nice for even longer. We always do on our clients cars.
Amazing video, as always!!!!!!!!
How does it hold now?are they still silver?
Great work. Very clean look.
I had exactly the same problem with my SLK. I painted mine with black hammer paint ( by brush) looks great and requires no masking
Awesome video, I’ll do on my c63 soon thanks man 👊🏻
Great video!!
any idea on 4x4 disc brake? it wove like that
I have impact sockets myself and on the odd occasion when I couldn't find the right impact socket I have used the normal 6 point socket and recently trying to remove my wheel nuts that had been done up so tight a breaker bar couldn't budge them I used a normal socket on an impact gun and not even a scratch on the socket and it was also a cheep socket aswell
Perfecto. Super useful. Thank you.
Nice job. How long did this last?
Great video
should have masked off the mounting surface too. Some "metal prep" might help too
Another great video Dom!
Thanks bud! Glad you liked it!
I will do this on my Bmw E60. Thank you.
You just made us save a lot of money
Was machen sie da mit der routierenden Drahtbürsten ?
good video looks great...im gonna go silver too for my slk....
I know they did black on the composite brake discs, but I don’t think these were fitted to the SLK? Silver is nice and OEM!
just a SUPER random thing to ask lol but why do the brits call a jack stand an “axel stand”? ..
Awesome! How long did it take to do all 4?
Probably about 45 minutes each, including drying with the heat gun!
Was gonna ask the same, would be great to have a list/links to all the tools/equipment used and time taken to get the job done…just my 2c, love the videos 🙏😎✌️
Merci
I like this look too
👌👏unbelievable
Ryobi with insane torque. Thats a good one🤣🤣🤣
My Megane RS brembos had gone proper ginger after i cheaped out not getting coated discs. I used a matt black stove/bbq paint, silver stands out far too much for my liking.
Yeah, I just went for the OEM look, it does go quite well with the white to be honest! Love the Megane RS, went in a liquid yellow r26 once that was mapped to 275 bhp, still one of the fastest things on the road I have ever been in!
Definately doing this to my BMW
The discs do looked quite worn and lipped actually. In the long term it would be better to renew them and before you fit them spray the non friction bright parts with the ultra high temperature paint to prolong the finish. Use a cardboard template with a circular cut out to mask the friction surface. If you are really keen then you can paint the edges too. On your car with black wheels I would have actually stuck with matt black, but it is a matter of taste.
I wouldn’t call that a worn disc. All brake discs will have wear, that’s how they work. But I’ve worked on lots of cars with high mileage over the years, so maybe I’m used to seeing a lot worse. I don’t see the point of renewing parts that are working fine, especially when they’re £300 for 2. They’re painted from factory, so if you did fit a new pair, you wouldn’t need to re-paint them. The paint in the video is VHT. The factory colour is silver, not black.
That’s a beautiful silver overspray on the car
Thank you ❤️
Excellent, can you do mine?
£100 a corner? 😬
@@CarThought ok thanks. I would like to proceed please
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great work, for the process you did, but the spraying paint overspray made me cringe so much
Thanks. Yeah, it just depends how much time you have. The paint particles just wiped off.
Put a plastic bag over the whole thing, cut a hole for the bits you want paint and tape in place,
Definitely go with black next time!
It's too late, but just to say: These rotors are toasted. Rear discs for W204 - thickness 26mm, minimal 24mm, so more than 1 mm wear is not acceptable.
Interesting maths there 😄
@@CarThought My point was 1 mm per side. Sorry!
Should have gone black
Nice work however not a fan of drilled discs as they as for the work it’s my experience that it will over time chip and flake. Next time cover your paint work all in seeing is over spray and it will have got on your fenders…. Mind you not somthing a bit of petrol won’t remove I painted my mx5 nc rosters a mid of purple and blue but them just replaced my stock discs with black mtec grooved discs
@megajohntopunishenslave427 Have you had a drink? Your comments make no sense.
@@gasgiant7122 They are typos and they make sense if you don't possess a single digit IQ.
You never paint the mounting surface!
Would love a logical explanation to back up this statement..
@@CarThought because it is the same reason that you never paint or clear coat parts of a rim where the bolts go. You need to have metal on metal and not metal on paint. Even if you torque down your rim...the paint between the parts can cause the bond to loosen up.
How thick is your paint? The contact area between the back of the rim and the disc surface isn’t bonding anything mechanically or chemically. There are 5 bolts clamping the wheel onto the hub @130Nm. There isn’t any paint on the threads. The disc is sandwiched between the rim and hub.. it’s not a fastening. In the video you’re commenting on, you’ll notice the factory black wheel bolts are also powder coated all over.
@@CarThought you may want to ask around where good guys resurface and repaint rims. They will tell you the same...no paint where proper surface contact is needed.
Ah, it’s second hand information? If you could ask whoever has told you, that would save us some time 😄. I can see why they don’t paint the wheel mating surface due to heat cycles from the disc, and potentially cracking the paint from the back, thus ruining the visible wheel paint surface over time… But from a mechanical point of view it shouldn’t make any difference.
Mmm, nope.
not if you lack the skills
Lol... Overspray.
incorrect blows away in the air
How much heat-resistant paint needed for all 4 brake rotors?