Brake Dust!!!!

[JamaicaJoe]

My 2001 has new rotors and pads and within 400 miles, I have nasty brake dust once again on my refurbished OEM rims. Back rims look like new as usual, but the front are looking like they did before I had brakes done and rims replaced. It is an inordinate amount of dust. The car stops and goes normally. I have no reason to think the calipers are dragging.

I am using the fancy $$ Maguiers rim cleaner tomorrow, but if I have to do this every 300 miles I will go nuts and broke.

What is the fix?

 

[Hamfisted]

Depends on the material make up of the brake pads. For low dust and great stopping power I went with the Akebono ProAct ceramic pads. Rims stay relatively clean from brake dust.

Akebono ACT702 for the 97-02 Expedition Fronts .

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[JamaicaJoe]

I am wondering if it requires breaking in the pads? I seem to be the only one complaining about these specific Wagner Quick Stop Semi Metallic. I will probably try ceramic at some point, perhaps with a caliper change that is probably due.

 

[Trainmaster]

Cheap pads give you lots of dust. If the calipers work there is no need to change them. If dust is a priority, just get ceramic pads. The OEM ones give you no dust.

 

[JamaicaJoe]

Cheap pads give you lots of dust. If the calipers work there is no need to change them. If dust is a priority, just get ceramic pads. The OEM ones give you no dust.

Yeah, just washed the wheels today with that fancy a$$ Maguiers rim cleaner. It all turned purple so plenty of iron dust front and rear. Not so much caked up on rear. Very annoying and hard to reach a brush into the barrel of the rim. Maybe I should use an air hose every day to blow that stuff away?

 

[Hamfisted]

I would say you have more patience than most .... I changed out my stock OEM brake pads after one month of trying to keep the rims clean, and they weren't even cheap Wagner pads !

 

[Machete]

Metallics = Dust

 

[Rock Star Rick]

Sometimes that dust can be more than just an eyesore, up until around 1990 brake pads contained a lot of asbestos. Unless you are using ceramic brake pads, there’s really no way to know for sure that the dust you want to blow away with an air hose isn’t contaminated with asbestos.
One of the biggest health risks in the industry today, aftermarket parts.
I wouldn’t use air, I would rinse it away with water.
A few words of wisdom,
‘When buying anything for your vehicle that is performing a safety function such as stopping, or any part that to replace just really sucks, (like that 1 spark plug that they built the 5.4 around). Buy the best!!, read reviews because sometimes the best isn’t the most expensive, but make a good effort to buy the best part.