aaronon wrote:Will you give us stage by stage photo's please? I was going to do this too
Will it mean that Volkswagen won't service my car if I start painting the brakes? :S
I've got a couple of photos, but to be honest its a pretty simple job, only issue I've had was that I couldn't get one of the drums off because of the rust, but RUM4MO's post above was really useful in shifting it. I only took them off as I was spraying them instead of using a brush, but as others have said, removing them isn't really necessary, as you can brush the paint on. Otherwise, its basically just get the back of the car up on axle stands, remove the wheels, use a wire brush to remove as much of the rust as possible, paint (but leave the mating face between the drum and wheel paint free), leave to dry, put the car back on the deck, admire rust free drums.
Only other thing is that the Hammerite spray paint seems to be taking quite a while to dry. I used Hammerite satin black and the finish is excellent, but looks like I'm not going to be able to get round to putting the car back on the ground till the weekend now
I don't think that VW will take an issue with it, to be honest in satin black it looks pretty OEM anyway. If they painted it properly in the factory then it wouldn't be an issue, and it's not like the paint is going to reduce brake life or anything, so I don't know what they could possibly find fault with.
), spray the drums with Hammerite Smooth silver and then leave to fully dry before refitting. However, since Googling it, I've found a number of posts on other forums which refer to using high temperature brake paint, as hammerite isn't suited to the high temperatures produced by the brakes. Most of these posts were concentrating on callipers though, so is this particularly relevant to the rear drums as well?
