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Title: Corrosion of brakes discs/hubs/calipers
Post by: Anonymous on July 8, 2005, 14:16

After reading this thread:
m http://www.mr2roc.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1316 (http://www.mr2roc.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1316) m

I thought I would pop along to my new found friends at
Toyota Attleborough (Norfolk) and see if I could persuade them to sort things out for me under the remaining warranty (first reg 11/03 on a 53 plate)
Only had my 2 a few weeks, bought used but been away on business for a while so not really had a lot of time to look into the problem till now.
(http://www.bryn-w.com/images/cal1.jpg)
(http://www.bryn-w.com/images/cal2.jpg)

Customer service = Brilliant they agreed to replace all four hubs/discs/pads and also offered to shot blast the calipers and paint them for me.

nicely impressed!
just got to decide on the colour any suggestions?

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Post by: markiii on July 8, 2005, 14:35

red or yellow

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Post by: Anonymous on July 8, 2005, 14:39

Yellow. Looks really good against the blue.

BTW, you're a lucky man to get the discs replaced, Toyota aren't supposed to be doing that anymore. At least, they wouldn't do mine... s:( :( s:(

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Post by: Anonymous on July 8, 2005, 15:48

Quote from: "ekona"Yellow. Looks really good against the blue.

BTW, you're a lucky man to get the discs replaced, Toyota aren't supposed to be doing that anymore. At least, they wouldn't do mine... s:( :( s:(

Yeah I know, that's what the service manager told me so I reminded him that my 2 would be coming to him for all my servicing so he said he would put the fault down to scored discs, worked like a charm bless him s:D :D s:D

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Post by: heathstimpson on July 8, 2005, 19:58

Wouldn't do mine either both times I asked. First time they cleaned up and painted the disc edge though to tidy up; roll on the replacement group buy s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

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Post by: kanujunkie on July 8, 2005, 20:45

the rules on discs is that they wont change them unless they've had a go at skimming them. They tried to skim mine last week, failed s:( :( s:( cos they were too low and are now changing them all next wednesday s:D :D s:D

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Post by: heathstimpson on July 8, 2005, 20:54

Quote from: "kanujunkie"the rules on discs is that they wont change them unless they've had a go at skimming them. They tried to skim mine last week, failed s:( :( s:( cos they were too low and are now changing them all next wednesday s:D :D s:D

They wouldn't even skim mine s:? :? s:?

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Post by: kanujunkie on July 8, 2005, 21:02

well if you wanna try them Abbey Citreon formerly Abbey Toyota will

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Post by: Tem on July 8, 2005, 21:48

Why don't you just join the Black Diamond GB and be done with this issue? s8) 8) s8)

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Post by: heathstimpson on July 8, 2005, 21:50

Quote from: "Tem"Why don't you just join the Black Diamond GB and be done with this issue? s8) 8) s8)

Names down already s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

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Post by: kanujunkie on July 9, 2005, 11:08

Quote from: "Tem"Why don't you just join the Black Diamond GB and be done with this issue? s8) 8) s8)

s:( :( s:( cant do everything, especially as i'm working on the mrs for a turbo s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:

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Post by: Anonymous on July 11, 2005, 13:23

A smidge off topic here but......

One of my brake calipers looks like the one at the top of this thread. It has quite a bit of surface rust. I was intending to rub it down then paint it with hammerite (maybe the high temp stuff if I can find it). Hopefully that will help with the rust and I will have painted calipers.

Will this work?

BTW. I am going for black paint, trying to be subtle.

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Post by: kanujunkie on July 11, 2005, 13:32

should do, just wire brush the surface corrosion off first

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Post by: Anonymous on July 11, 2005, 14:16

Excellent. Guess what I'll be doing during my lunch hours this week s8) 8) s8) .

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