Rusty Brakes

[hemitom]

man i wish my cars brakes looked like that after seven months let alone seven years !

 

[Kestas]

When I lived in the Bay Area, I remember seeing cars on the very coast taking a hit with corrosion.

 

[The Critic]

This is my brother’s rav4 hybrid (2020?) after one rainy night at the beach:

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That is surface rust. The pictures I posted show significant build up on the edges and have begun to reduce pad-to-rotor contact.

 

[Dave P.]

2014 Prius V, 106K.
Car spent the first 40K in the suburbs, then moved to a neighborhood in San Francisco near the ocean. The vehicle is driven several times a week

This is probably the rustiest vehicle I have seen by CA standards. I am sure some of you will laugh at me…

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Even the shims are peeling!
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I'll trade you my brakes for yours. I'll even throw in a sheet of 3/4" plywood!

 

[Gimpy1]

For those not in the know you've gotta put a prius in neutral once in a while and do a nice brisk stop from high speed to keep the rotors clean.

I bet you can get those sway bar end links out without destroying them, so this car is still in excellent new-england shape.

Prius and high speed are two words that don't belong in the same sentence.

 

[Hall]

Prius and high speed are two words that don't belong in the same sentence.

Well, it's all relative

 

[JHZR2]

That is surface rust. The pictures I posted show significant build up on the edges and have begun to reduce pad-to-rotor contact.

Not denying that. Point intended (not stated) is that I was pretty surprised at the tendency of the alloys chosen in these vehicles to rust. Bright red, all over. Worse than I’ve seen on any of my vehicles that sit outside and get rained on. We had our Honda van exposed to the exact same conditions without that rust. Driven through the same weather and parked within feet. It was just surprising to see that much so fast on the Toyota…

Lucky you! Here in the midwest, things are a little different....

man i wish my cars brakes looked like that after seven months let alone seven years !

Both very true…

 

[Sparky16]

I'm sorry, but it's bad . . . when I was in central valley, CA for 30 years, only had surface rust from rain.

 

[The Critic]

Not denying that. Point intended (not stated) is that I was pretty surprised at the tendency of the alloys chosen in these vehicles to rust. Bright red, all over. Worse than I’ve seen on any of my vehicles that sit outside and get rained on. We had our Honda van exposed to the exact same conditions without that rust. Driven through the same weather and parked within feet. It was just surprising to see that much so fast on the Toyota…




Both very true…

Check the printing on your odyssey’s rotor hat. See if it says FNC. Honda started start using FNC rotors around the time that you purchased the odyssey.

 

[KneeGrinder]

Looks almost new to me! I wish most of my vehicles looked that New!