New discs, how to protect them from rust?

[Mk1T]

Hi chaps,

Im attempting to fit new discs on the front of my daily and the current ones on there drive me nuts when i look down and see the rust on the hub centres. Im OCD!

Its my first time changing brake discs so not come across this before, am I right in thinking I could just clean them with brake cleaner and then spray with some silver VHT paint? And be done with it? Might help them last longer thats all.

What have you guys used? Hoping to do it at the weekend so maybe a halfords special will be the way forward!! Thanks [emoji106][emoji106]

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[JB21]

Should have just got some coated discs from mtec. You could paint them but it will look gash!

 

[Mk1T]

Should have just got some coated discs from mtec. You could paint them but it will look gash!

The ones on the car are MTEC j hooks or something and they were relatively new. They look gash now! I dont know if the ones I've got (bremtechs) came coated but I doubt it! I thought it was something fairly common to paint the hubs and by paint i mean spray lol.

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[davo172]

EBC spotted and groved discs ?

 

[hipwell]

Fitted new rears to mine last week and its quite depressing watching the rust get worse around the edges after each wash and drive in the rain lol.

Give it another week an itl look like theyve been on 2 years lol

 

[obcuz]

I used Hammerite smooth rattle can spray on my Esc. and still look good after a couple of thousand miles (4 years), it's garaged and not used in wet so this is probably best case. Don't have a recent picture, but know there's no rust - other than from a few scratches from putting wheels on/off. a few times.

 

[Mk1T]

I used Hammerite smooth rattle can spray on my Esc. and still look good after a couple of thousand miles (4 years), it's garaged and not used in wet so this is probably best case. Don't have a recent picture, but know there's no rust - other than from a few scratches from putting wheels on/off. a few times.

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That's epic and exactly what I was hoping to do really. However, I fitted them today (first time ever doing discs and pads)

And I haven't coated them at all [emoji23][emoji23]

Ideally if I had time I'd do it all and paint the calipers, but its my only car that runs at the moment and I need it for tomorrow and daily mon-fri so missed out. Will be rusty tomorow no doubt!

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