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Wierd corrosion on my brake rotors
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Burns098356GX
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Dec 14, 2009, 9:34 PM
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Wierd corrosion on my brake rotors
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Hello, I hope this is the correct forum for this. I recently had my front brakes changed for the first time since I've owned the car (first car I've owned a car). And I've noticed a odd ring of corrosion on the brake rotor towards the middle of the rotor. I never noticed this before and Im wondering if the brake pads were installed incorrectly, because the brake pad defiantly covers the area that would make this ring, but I guess its not making contact with the rotor. Anybody seen anything like this before? Sorry for the everything being messy, been nothing but rain, snow and salt on the roads. 
Any help would be appreciated, I honestly dont know much about home auto repair.
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re-tired
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Dec 14, 2009, 10:49 PM
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The backing plate of the pad may cover that ares but the friction area ,the actual "brake pad" does not , looks like an orginal machining line and normal corrsion .IMO
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Burns098356GX
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Dec 14, 2009, 10:56 PM
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So your saying there is no problem, its just the brake pad isnt suppose to make contact where that rust is?
Will that rust eventually cause damage to the rotor?
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chickenhouse
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Dec 14, 2009, 11:10 PM
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Don't know how recent this brake job was done but looks like rotors were not turned.
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Hammer Time
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Dec 15, 2009, 3:55 AM
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That rust is completely normal and means nothing. My shop is on the ocean and i see it get much worse than that.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Dec 15, 2009, 7:39 AM
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Agree - normal. It's ugly with see thru wheels - I'm bad - If it were mine I would be real carful not to touch the friction area and paint over the rust with BBQ black. I've seen some drums and rotors come thru new painted except the friction area - I believe Centric brake parts does that. You can't paint new stuff as there's usually a slight coating that wouldn't take paint,
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Hammer Time
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Dec 15, 2009, 7:51 AM
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I'd be real careful with the paint idea. If you get any paint at all on the contact surface, you'll create a problem when you don't have one now. What you see is perfectly normal.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Dec 15, 2009, 7:55 AM
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Hammer - I'm not normal but I would be that careful and if you blow it they would need to be turned/machined. Better rotors won't do that as fast or are pre painted new,
T
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