Ceramic Brakes Fire

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

Ceramic brakes fire.

Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating applied to bisqueware to color decorate or waterproof an item. Brake pad manufacturers refer to this as the polymerization or curing process. I m guessing that the cermamic material in the discs are not very withstanding to high temperatures. 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.

The owner was attending a track day and had a brake failure and fire. But what follows after the brakes catch fire. For earthenware such as fired clay pottery to hold liquid it needs a glaze. The heat caused by normal braking on new brake friction materials cause the pads to go through this final curing process.

Not unusual for brake pads to smoke after replacement. In the post the owner references the thickness of the pads. If you have a vehicle that has exceeded the minimum wear specification. That s right it s not uncommon to see brakes smoke after replacing pads.

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