ceramic brakes pads leaving a black glaze on new rotors

[mattn]

I just installed a set of ceramic brake pads on my eclipse with brand new drilled and slotted rotors, and they are leaving a black glaze on them. Will this go away or is this normal? Kinda sucks seeing my shiny new drilled and slotted rotors all dulled up ..

 

[DGajre777]

I just installed a set of ceramic brake pads on my eclipse with brand new drilled and slotted rotors, and they are leaving a black glaze on them. Will this go away or is this normal? Kinda sucks seeing my shiny new drilled and slotted rotors all dulled up ..

I have PBR ceramic pads on my Brembo drilled/slotted rotors and I don't have a black glaze. Did you do the break-in/burn-in procedure after you installed the pads? Your shiny new rotors are not going to remain shiny where the pads contact the disc. Mine are sort of a white/very light brown color.

 

[jtmcinder]

Post the name of the pads. Some have so much binder that people bake them in an oven before putting them on the car to get some of the juice out. That's rather old-school, but maybe your pads are of this type.

If you do a search for "green fade," you learn more of what I am talking.

- Jtoby

 

[DodgeAvenger96]

Before I put my brake pads on the car I scrape them on the concrete a couple of time back and forth just to get the crap off of the pad.

 

[mattn]

This was my first brake job so I had no idea about any type of glaze... I believe they were an "eclipse" brand or something like that and I bought them from discount auto. My car stops on a dime now and Im pretty happy with it except the glaze... Anything I can do now to fix this?

 

[DGajre777]

I have never heard of an "eclipse" brand brake pads. From what I've read slotted/drilled rotors take a bigger bite out of brake pads and eat up more pads compared to regular rotors which is why I went with PBR Ultimate ceramic pads. Perhaps Jtoby can confirm or disagree.