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Ive just recently gotten my car back on the road and the rotors are covered in shit which does not seem to come off...

Ive taken it out for a run, warmed up the brakes, then done round 10 heavy stops, this being from say 120 down to 20k as hard as i can without locking up the wheels.

Ive noticed braking doesn't feel very good at all (pedal holds but just doesn't feel like its doing all that much), and afterwards my brakes make a very noisy 'creeking' noise (eg stand outside the car, press brakes), its like a dry cracked sound.

Also, looking at the fluid holder, there seems to be a top layer of water (yay.). Im planning on flushing the system asap, though if any1 had any suggestions on the above, thatd be great. Im looking at buying the new dba rotors asap, so getting the discs machined will be a waste.

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Sounds like you might have coated the rotors with resin out of the pad material. A light machine should solve it. You can clean the pads off by scuffing them on a concrete path.

I have found slotted rotors are very good in this situation, because they seem to be self-cleaning.

Yeh wooden fell sums it up pretty well...I might try to get them machined tomorrow arvo if i can get it done cheaply. Im expecting to get the dba rotors so ill hold for those if not...pads are new to the degree of say 10,000k, ebc greenstuff, wouldnt buy them again.

Also trying to track down some gear to bleed the brakes as its 1/2 full of water...not happy jan!

Just as well this is a long weekend :P

Don't even drive it if there's water in the brake system. :eek:

Wow! where did you store it? In the river?

If it feels crap it's because the system is in need of a flush and bleed. If it is water in there I would think your master cylinder and pistons in the calipers are toast...:(

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