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To skim or not to skim

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:51 am
by guy
Well what are people's thoughts??

My discs are b7 fronts and the pads are oem and are needing changed.

I have some ferodo premier pads to go on and I've measured the thickness left on the discs with a vernier.

Now I think the discs are 34 mm new and min manufacture thickness is 32mm mine are 32.48 and 32.24 at the mo.

I don't want to shell out for new b7 discs nor the vw phaeton ones if I don't have to.

Skimming, when done correctly seems to be worth while!

What are people's thoughts???

I should add, the discs were bought second hand, nearly new and I've put approx 25k miles on them.

Re: To skim or not to skim

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:31 pm
by alex020869
I would get them skimmed. If done properly they should be fine. Think a couple of guys have had theirs skimmed.

Alex

Re: To skim or not to skim

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:40 am
by guy
Well I've decided I'm going to grind the lip off myself and then do the pad change!

As peeps have said if it ain't broke.....

Once done I'll post back results for others to see