brake performance rotors rusted out in 3 months.

[Chiggy]

Don't paint your rotors. You should have bought the Zinc coated ones. You'll never get the rust off there to have a good surface paint will stick to and the paint will wear off eventually making them look worse that just being rusty.

 

[rippinitup]

They are "zinc" coated.

 

[Chiggy]

If that was true they wouldn't be rusting. I think you've been lied to. Or they sent you the wrong parts. Mine are 2 years old and they look the same as the day I put them on.

 

[rippinitup]

I've gotten the dimpled drilled and slotted rotors with the "black zinc" coating. I called them and they told me it's metal it's going to rust.

 

[NJ04HOE]

They definitely lied to you, best option is paint and never buy from them again


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[rippinitup]

The rotors were black when I got them though. So I don't understand what's going on.

 

[rippinitup]

If that was true they wouldn't be rusting. I think you've been lied to. Or they sent you the wrong parts. Mine are 2 years old and they look the same as the day I put them on.

Hey are your rotors more of a "silver" color or the dark type of metal like mine? They claim the rotors is supposed to look like this.
Mine.

 

[Chiggy]

Mine are silver. The hats are silver for the most part as well still. There's a little bit of brake dust on them that has corroded a teeny bit but it's nothing like what you've got going on. Zinc is a sacrificial metal they dissolve in a bath and through a galvanic process it coats the parts. It's going to take a while for a good coating to all rust off and leave bare steel to rust like that. Zinc isn't usually dark so I don't know how they did that one either. I got my kit from powerstop for both of my vehicles. With my Tahoe I got the kit for the 07+ tahoe with pads and went to the parts store and got new calipers and brackets. It stops like a champ now.

 

[Red Rider]

No way you can clean that with a brush. Just sand blast them.

High temp paint?? Don't you need caliper paint? I never had much luck with plain high temp paint. Or maybe that was with exhaust

 

[Red Rider]

BTW, if you paint them, you void the warranty. I did that with a caliper i bought. They immediately started leaking. So i brought them back. They said "no can do". I had to take all the paint off before they would accept it back. That was AdvancedAuto.