New brake Pads do not cover entire surface of rotors.
 

I have a 370Z sport package with 4 piston caliper front brakes and 2 piston caliper rear brakes. I recently installed new ultra premium blank rotors and pads from NAPA in all 4 wheels. I made sure they were the large sport package rotors. So I installed them and everything works perfect, no noise, firm brake and the Z stops on a dime. Only thing that I noticed is that the new pads do not cover the entire surface of the rotor. I noticed it when I washed the car and the rotor accumulated a bit of rust. I went for a ride hit the brakes to clean them but like 1cm in the inner surface of the rotors do not make contact with the pads. This issue applies to all of the installed rotors. The pads are the correct ones I ordered. Everything works fine but the ring of rust in the inner surface of the rotor bugs me and I'm not sure if this will be a problem down the road. Please let me know if this is NORMAL. Below are some pics.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/13/6ejasy7a.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/13/urysytad.jpg


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Normal

Yep.

Do you guys think it would be best to just paint that ring with high temp black spray paint so it won't look so damn ugly?


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Wouldn't hurt. But yea that's normal. I just changed the rear pads and my rotors look just like that too.

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no

Normal. Occurred to my back in the 20th century with my other cars.

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X2. More Trouble Than Its worth

not even worth the time!

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Thanks guys, this is how it looks a bit over a month of use. Its getting darker as time goes by so I'm not even going to bother to black it out. Rotors and pads have been working really good!


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Feels awesome buying parts and doing your own maintenance on the Z. I went to the Nissan dealership and they wanted to charge me over $1000k to replace rotors and pads. I laughed and left, bought the parts and installed them by myself. I even changed the brake fluid by myself. In total I spent around $600 in parts and I had fun installing them.


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For that, you could have done the Z1 brake upgrade package, great job otherwise saving cash and doing it yourself

Just did 4 rotors, pads and fluid on the CRV. Honda wanted $1200, I did it in three hours and $450 even using Honda stock parts.