Ceramic Brakes Fire

Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating applied to bisqueware to color decorate or waterproof an item.

Ceramic brakes fire.

Not unusual for brake pads to smoke after replacement. What was on fire. If the temperature is high enough for them to catch fire wouldn t the discs get warped. The heat caused by normal braking on new brake friction materials cause the pads to go through this final curing process.

If you have a vehicle that has exceeded the minimum wear specification. I m guessing that the cermamic material in the discs are not very withstanding to high temperatures. 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.

Brake pad manufacturers refer to this as the polymerization or curing process. That s right it s not uncommon to see brakes smoke after replacing pads. In the post the owner references the thickness of the pads. But what follows after the brakes catch fire.

The owner was attending a track day and had a brake failure and fire.