Hey everyone.

Before you flame me for posting on the "wheels" forum an issue about my brakes read this:

I think the scratch is due to something with the WHEELS. ok? good.

Check out this scratch:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...3/DSCN1022.jpg

This is uniform on both of my front brembos.....

There is a small gap between the rims and the caliper...so the only ways I could see this happening is if the rim had a dent, chipped the paint; got repaired. Either that or the heat in that center section got too hot and bubbled/peelsed the paint off.

Any thoughts?

 

Tough call. I don't see any starting scratches or ending scratches. It is possible that heat did it, but I think it would have to be some serious track type work to get there.

At any rate, it considered as a good time to powder coat

 

Wierd..I have some chips on my brembos, but nothing of that nature.

 

Yeah I think when I get my rims powdercoated (black) I'll have them touch these up.

I thought it would have been heat...but there is no way that the metal is that thin at the same spot to warrant bubbling or whatever happened.

Oh well....a mechanical anomaly .

 

Your wheels should not have touched the calipers. I've seen cars with aftermarket BBKs that have only enough room stick a piece of paper between the wheel and caliper gap that never had this problem. Since it appears that you have a OEM track there is no way the wheels would have moved to have scratched your wheels. The only thing I can think of is that maybe you installed the brembos after the fact on a non track and they're not secure correctly on the mounts thus causing movement when braking.

 

My guess is that a rock or something else popped up and got caught between the wheel spoke and the caliper.

 

+1

 

Did you take it somewhere to get new tires or any service that removed the wheels? Maybe someone threw the wheels up there and they nicked the brakes before tightning the lugs...

 

Looks like some d!ckhead put on a c-clamp to push the pistons back in during a brake job and didnt care about the caliper. Thats what it looks like to me, no way your track wheels touched those calipers.

 

+1 on the c-clamp.

The layout of the large and small scratch point to just that kind of idiocy.
I'd be billing them for the touch-up paint job.

 

FYI:

http://www.iwsti.com/forums/showthre...bo+honda+paint

I picked up some at my local Honda dealership for $6

 

The c clamp theory makes sense especially since you have that mark on both sides.
Good call...

 

I had a shop to change the brake pad and got chips like yours at the upper right hand.

 

+2, this is a very likely scenerio

 

i bet it was a C-clamp issue. doubtful that a rock got up on BOTH and caused the same sized damage on both...but hey who knows.

touch up paint time!

i'd bill whoever messed it up but i'm the 2nd owner and just got the car a few months ago. now its getting treated right.