Just a quick question I'm hoping someone might know the answer to.....at some point soon, I need to change my brakes discs. As far as I know, they are standard Nissan discs. Yesterday, a friend of mine took a quick look at the discs and said that I could skim the disc, rather than go to the cost of new ones, because there was still plenty on them. I just wondered if anyone has tried this, and how safe it is? I don't race the car (apart from the odd traffic lights incident!), and I don't do many miles in it. Is it a good idea to skim them or not?:confused:

You can skim discs and they should be fine so long as they are not at the minimum thickness they should be, go to 3G brakes and have a look on there site, they do some great deals on new discs ect.

 

So long as they are skimmed correctly, its fine.

as waz says - no problemo if above min thickness.

 

in fact, my mate who worked for mitsubushi said their new disks were so bad they used to skim all the new ones they fitted!!

Cheers all.

 

Don't suppose anyone knows of anywhere that does this in the Midlands area, do they?

...might not be your disks. The 4 pistons in the calipers get stuck and stop operating smoothly - ie all 4 together - and cause brake judder at slow breaking speeds. If you remove the pads, clean behind the dust seals, add some hydraulic grease and push the pistons back in a few times, this tends to free them up. Pads back in and try them. No judder and it was the pistons in the calipers - and not the disks.

 

good luck.

 

Jack