New brake Pads do not cover entire surface of rotors.

nick760 · 04-12-2014, 02:25 PM

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.

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SouthArk370Z · 04-12-2014, 05:47 PM

Normal

Rusty · 04-12-2014, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z

Normal

Yep.

nick760 · 04-12-2014, 07:05 PM

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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370zBLAST · 05-25-2014, 11:09 PM

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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fuct · 05-27-2014, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nick760

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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no

Limeybastard · 05-27-2014, 06:11 PM

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

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Shiru · 05-27-2014, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fuct

no

X2. More Trouble Than Its worth

RyanWest · 05-27-2014, 08:08 PM

not even worth the time!

nick760 · 05-27-2014, 08:13 PM

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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nick760 · 05-27-2014, 08:20 PM

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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SS_Firehawk · 05-27-2014, 09:40 PM

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

Ubetit · 05-27-2014, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by nick760

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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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.

04-12-2014, 02:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
nick760 Base Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Deltona, Florida Posts: 30 Drives: Nissan 370z Rep Power: 13	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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Last edited by nick760; 04-12-2014 at 02:27 PM.

04-12-2014, 05:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
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04-12-2014, 07:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
nick760 Base Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Deltona, Florida Posts: 30 Drives: Nissan 370z Rep Power: 13	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? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

05-25-2014, 11:09 PM	#5 (permalink)
370zBLAST Base Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: ct Posts: 247 Drives: 09 370z 6spd Rep Power: 11	Wouldn't hurt. But yea that's normal. I just changed the rear pads and my rotors look just like that too. Sent from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk

05-27-2014, 06:11 PM	#7 (permalink)
Limeybastard A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: FL and London UK. Posts: 1,514 Drives: 2014 370Z Sport. Rep Power: 17	Normal. Occurred to my back in the 20th century with my other cars. Sent from my SM-N900T using Tapatalk

05-27-2014, 08:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
RyanWest Track Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Tamp, Fl Posts: 714 Drives: 2009 Nissan Rep Power: 33	not even worth the time!

05-27-2014, 08:13 PM	#10 (permalink)
nick760 Base Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Deltona, Florida Posts: 30 Drives: Nissan 370z Rep Power: 13	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! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

05-27-2014, 08:20 PM	#11 (permalink)
nick760 Base Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Deltona, Florida Posts: 30 Drives: Nissan 370z Rep Power: 13	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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk