Grabbing Brakes solution

Why must people seem to make things more complicated then they really need to be?
You have brakes that rust... Why? Because you don't use them near as often as if they where a non hybrid. So to clean the rust off... Wait for it... Use them. Simply do more hard braking more often. It's not hard to determine when you are going from regen to friction braking make sure a time or 2 in every trip you break harder.

 

Re: Update: Grabbing Brakes solution

So you have the disks in your hands, can you confirm they are alloy? When reading the manufactures web page they appear to be steel with one of two types of plating, granted they are slotted which makes them superior to non slotted. I also note the manufacturer suggests using metallic brake pads for best performance, I can't imagine metallic pads being used on alloy disks, or rather I can imagine how quickly the disks would disentigrate...

 

thanks for this.. i will add this to my repair guide collection..

 

not to burst everyones bubble, but slotted rotors are a performance mod used to cut any glazing off the PAD, so fresh pad material with best stopping friction is always contacting the rotor.
slots do nothing to clean the rotor.
slots are generally accepted in high performance applications to maintain maximum stopping power from intense heated pads/rotors.
BUT this slot cutting action sacrifices pad longevity, not a concern in race setting when brakes are replaced frequently.
on a street car slots are usually a waste, because you never get into that high performance range, especially on a prius lol
all you are doing is skimming your pads continuously, it will just shorten pad life. no real performnce gain.
maybe if you are lucky the rotors are an alloy that will resist corrosion/rust better

 

Good suggestion there and I won't bother to argue the rest of the thread. I may do a something like this periodically because, after all, most of us take pride in NOT having to use the friction brakes much...