gidged500
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Saw this yesterday .......
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chrisritch
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despite the fear of sounding retarded, what am I looking at?
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BluKoo
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Looks like hub and disk painted with hammerite.
Maybe its the wheel with no locking wheel nuts?
[Edited on 08-08-2011 by BluKoo]
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JM_16v
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Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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indeed, painted disc with hammertie
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Gary
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looks like disk too small tbh
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BluKoo
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quote: Originally posted by Gary
looks like disk too small tbh
Thats a good point. The caliper barely touches it
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makincorsac
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it looks like a brand new disc and the caliper is far too small no locking nut on the wheels
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DannyB
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I would say it's the fact the disc has been painted
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JM_16v
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shock doesnt look attached
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BluKoo
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Thing is though i'm sure the disk would clean up after the brakes had been applied a few times.
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taylorboosh
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ive had a little bit paint on discs before...comes off after a few miles
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adiohead
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My discs came painted from the manufacturer.
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Brett
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Not sure on the problem myself
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harrisp
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Surely its the fact the pad contact on the disk is pretty much non existant?
[Edited on 08-08-2011 by harrisp]
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BluKoo
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Must be the fact that the caliper barely reaches the disk.
So either its the wrong caliper, wrong disk, or the caliper is mounted in the wrong position.
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Brett
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It does tho, it's the discolouration that makes it look short? You can see where the pads have took off the silver?
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BluKoo
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I see it now. You're right, the shiny bit was playing tricks with my eyes.
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Brett
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Only problem I can see is a gay looking choice of brake discs. Hopefully he didn't mean the lack of locking nuts because mine doesn't have any either, pointless. I'm still waiting for the OP to fill us in on what the issue is
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LeeM
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looking at the colour of the disc in comparison to the hub nut id say we're meant to be looking at the fact that someones painted the brake disc.
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Brett
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Didn't think that was unheard of? Seen them do that at garages before to brighten them up a bit. Could be wrong.
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Tomm R
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took me a while to spot it because there were a few things i was confused by.
Discs look crap for starters, pad a disc contact looks fairly minimal, and the discs appear to have been painted.
Not overly cool.
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gidged500
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Registered: 18th Aug 09
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It's on a sierra and they have painted the discs weirdly lol
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gidged500
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The other bit is that whoever owns the car has cut the discs !
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DannyB
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quote: Originally posted by gidged500
The other bit is that whoever owns the car has cut the discs !
You can buy discs cut like that
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Stu
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Id say the standard discs have a smaller contact area than these uprated "wavy" discs have.
What car was it?
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