Ceramic Brakes Fire

If the temperature is high enough for them to catch fire wouldn t the discs get warped.

Ceramic brakes fire.

The owner was attending a track day and had a brake failure and fire. In the post the owner references the thickness of the pads. Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating applied to bisqueware to color decorate or waterproof an item. Potters apply a layer of glaze to the bisqueware leave it to dry then load it in the kiln for its final step glaze firing.

Not the pads or brake fluid but the caliper boot and seal. The top gear reviews of the mercedes cls amg and mclaren both show their disc brakes catching fire after phenomonal braking demonstrations. The heat caused by normal braking on new brake friction materials cause the pads to go through this final curing process. But what follows after the brakes catch fire.

Brake pad manufacturers refer to this as the polymerization or curing process. For earthenware such as fired clay pottery to hold liquid it needs a glaze. Not unusual for brake pads to smoke after replacement. I m guessing that the cermamic material in the discs are not very withstanding to high temperatures.

This brings me to a brake tip that can save you a comeback.