How to fix your rusty brake discs! C63 AMG DIY

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Ever wondered how easy it is to get rid of that brake disc surface rust that's ruining the look of your shiny W204 C63?
Don't want to spend £800 on a new set of rotors? Here's how you can do it for less than £20..
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@CarThought Жыл бұрын

There wasn’t a lot of overspray, but I’d recommend masking off around the wheel arch too!

@CatNdaHatLV 7 ай бұрын

Definitely liked the simplicity you showed and the instruction. I've got a different car & plan to do this before winter arrives.

@ldh2851 Жыл бұрын

Great work! Your videos are excellent; concise yet comprehensive with good video of the job at hand. Your relaxed manner with an appropriate amount of clear instructions make the videos very easy to watch and builds confidence, thank you!

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! Always found cars very therapeutic to work on.. (as long as there’s a good supply of tea) everyone’s a winner.

@DistractedNumber Жыл бұрын

Another great vid. Love watching the work on the beast!

@scottvirgogp Жыл бұрын

Just came here for the start up sound effect - such a beast. Nice tidy up job, and great use of the Sun.

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

Haha, I heard one with no mufflers on the other day 😲

@JackKing12. 7 ай бұрын

Looks great. Good as new. Good job 👏

@Vini-Pizza 9 ай бұрын

Did you clean and ceramic coat the wheels when they were off the car?

@omarochoa6884 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful! U just cleared my headache I will be doing this to my car thank you lad

@hamishpaterson2413 7 ай бұрын

Perfect! Excellent video! Lovely car to 😍

@nigelbryant5932 11 күн бұрын

I had exactly the same problem with my SLK. I painted mine with black hammer paint ( by brush) looks great and requires no masking

@pauldegans2393 6 ай бұрын

Great result! Put Gyeon Rim on te sprayed surface and it will stay nice for even longer. We always do on our clients cars.

@Vini-Pizza 9 ай бұрын

Great video!!

@kellylongman4438 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, as always!!!!!!!!

@derekgovan2547 Жыл бұрын

Great work. Very clean look.

@imdaveperkins Жыл бұрын

Perfecto. Super useful. Thank you.

@ronniem3592 8 ай бұрын

Great video

@186scott 10 ай бұрын

I have impact sockets myself and on the odd occasion when I couldn't find the right impact socket I have used the normal 6 point socket and recently trying to remove my wheel nuts that had been done up so tight a breaker bar couldn't budge them I used a normal socket on an impact gun and not even a scratch on the socket and it was also a cheep socket aswell

@lucasnunes8603 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, I’ll do on my c63 soon thanks man 👊🏻

@miragef191 10 ай бұрын

How does it hold now?are they still silver?

@MrShelange 10 ай бұрын

any idea on 4x4 disc brake? it wove like that

@markalden Жыл бұрын

Another great video Dom!

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

Thanks bud! Glad you liked it!

@reacp9114 8 ай бұрын

should have masked off the mounting surface too. Some "metal prep" might help too

@dougseivwright 5 күн бұрын

Nice job. How long did this last?

@angelperez-gl5ov Жыл бұрын

You just made us save a lot of money

@keemoify Жыл бұрын

I will do this on my Bmw E60. Thank you.

@hartmutthomas989 8 күн бұрын

Was machen sie da mit der routierenden Drahtbürsten ?

@mazyd4091 8 күн бұрын

just a SUPER random thing to ask lol but why do the brits call a jack stand an “axel stand”? ..

@H1malik9314 25 күн бұрын

👌👏unbelievable

@andretraversy9391 Ай бұрын

Merci

@monkey555500 Жыл бұрын

good video looks great...im gonna go silver too for my slk....

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

I know they did black on the composite brake discs, but I don’t think these were fitted to the SLK? Silver is nice and OEM!

@dawidch1787 Ай бұрын

I like this look too

@gizmosfere Жыл бұрын

Ryobi with insane torque. Thats a good one🤣🤣🤣

@abbilongman Жыл бұрын

Awesome! How long did it take to do all 4?

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

Probably about 45 minutes each, including drying with the heat gun!

@internetmarketerbr1800 Жыл бұрын

Was gonna ask the same, would be great to have a list/links to all the tools/equipment used and time taken to get the job done…just my 2c, love the videos 🙏😎✌️

@W00LFY100 Жыл бұрын

My Megane RS brembos had gone proper ginger after i cheaped out not getting coated discs. I used a matt black stove/bbq paint, silver stands out far too much for my liking.

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just went for the OEM look, it does go quite well with the white to be honest! Love the Megane RS, went in a liquid yellow r26 once that was mapped to 275 bhp, still one of the fastest things on the road I have ever been in!

@80andybrown80 Ай бұрын

Definately doing this to my BMW

@josecavada3830 3 ай бұрын

👍

@devaplan Ай бұрын

The discs do looked quite worn and lipped actually. In the long term it would be better to renew them and before you fit them spray the non friction bright parts with the ultra high temperature paint to prolong the finish. Use a cardboard template with a circular cut out to mask the friction surface. If you are really keen then you can paint the edges too. On your car with black wheels I would have actually stuck with matt black, but it is a matter of taste.

@CarThought Ай бұрын

I wouldn’t call that a worn disc. All brake discs will have wear, that’s how they work. But I’ve worked on lots of cars with high mileage over the years, so maybe I’m used to seeing a lot worse. I don’t see the point of renewing parts that are working fine, especially when they’re £300 for 2. They’re painted from factory, so if you did fit a new pair, you wouldn’t need to re-paint them. The paint in the video is VHT. The factory colour is silver, not black.

@jamesc.6933 3 ай бұрын

That’s a beautiful silver overspray on the car

@CarThought 3 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@miteshchouhan8216 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, can you do mine?

@CarThought Жыл бұрын

£100 a corner? 😬

@miteshchouhan8216 Жыл бұрын

@@CarThought ok thanks. I would like to proceed please

@TheGojodfrey Ай бұрын

Put a plastic bag over the whole thing, cut a hole for the bits you want paint and tape in place,

@mikejohnson1228 2 ай бұрын

great work, for the process you did, but the spraying paint overspray made me cringe so much

@CarThought 2 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yeah, it just depends how much time you have. The paint particles just wiped off.

@thegreatwhite75 11 ай бұрын

Definitely go with black next time!

@Stillbusy105 Жыл бұрын

Should have gone black

@krkoychev Ай бұрын

It's too late, but just to say: These rotors are toasted. Rear discs for W204 - thickness 26mm, minimal 24mm, so more than 1 mm wear is not acceptable.

@CarThought Ай бұрын

Interesting maths there 😄

@krkoychev Ай бұрын

@@CarThought My point was 1 mm per side. Sorry!

@steffydog Жыл бұрын

Mmm, nope.

@EazyDuz18 3 ай бұрын

not if you lack the skills

@christianapn Ай бұрын

You never paint the mounting surface!

@CarThought Ай бұрын

Would love a logical explanation to back up this statement..

@christianapn Ай бұрын

@@CarThought because it is the same reason that you never paint or clear coat parts of a rim where the bolts go. You need to have metal on metal and not metal on paint. Even if you torque down your rim...the paint between the parts can cause the bond to loosen up.

@CarThought Ай бұрын

How thick is your paint? The contact area between the back of the rim and the disc surface isn’t bonding anything mechanically or chemically. There are 5 bolts clamping the wheel onto the hub @130Nm. There isn’t any paint on the threads. The disc is sandwiched between the rim and hub.. it’s not a fastening. In the video you’re commenting on, you’ll notice the factory black wheel bolts are also powder coated all over.

@christianapn Ай бұрын

@@CarThought you may want to ask around where good guys resurface and repaint rims. They will tell you the same...no paint where proper surface contact is needed.

@CarThought Ай бұрын

Ah, it’s second hand information? If you could ask whoever has told you, that would save us some time 😄. I can see why they don’t paint the wheel mating surface due to heat cycles from the disc, and potentially cracking the paint from the back, thus ruining the visible wheel paint surface over time… But from a mechanical point of view it shouldn’t make any difference.

@travelsahead 3 ай бұрын

Lol... Overspray.

@EazyDuz18 3 ай бұрын

incorrect blows away in the air

@megajohntopunishenslave427 Жыл бұрын

Nice work however not a fan of drilled discs as they as for the work it’s my experience that it will over time chip and flake. Next time cover your paint work all in seeing is over spray and it will have got on your fenders…. Mind you not somthing a bit of petrol won’t remove I painted my mx5 nc rosters a mid of purple and blue but them just replaced my stock discs with black mtec grooved discs

@gasgiant7122 6 ай бұрын

@megajohntopunishenslave427 Have you had a drink? Your comments make no sense.

@HEABtheOrdinary 6 ай бұрын

@@gasgiant7122 They are typos and they make sense if you don't possess a single digit IQ.