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Originally Posted by Rambit
A while back I posted a question regarding excessive brake dust on the wheels of my SRT8. There wasn't a lot of discussion or recommendations other than a reference to "bedding" the brakes by Dave Zeckhausen, which I read. It didn't cover brake dust problems however.
Interestingly, the search results I did throughout the forum only came up with folks stating they had little or no brake dust problems. I don't know if I'm driving a little too agressively or if it's the ESP that's causing the problem, but I've washed my car several times now and pay a great deal of attention to the wheels. They are covered with brake dust after only driving 50-60 km's which continues to build up till I wash it again. I now have 500 Km's (300 miles) on the car and it's not getting any better. This is all over the outside and inner portions of all four wheels. Getting it off is easy enough, but is awfully time consuming, besides the spoke edges are very sharp on the inside edge when I go to clean the inner portion of the wheel I'm always cutting my thumb.
Once again, I'm asking specifically the SRT8 owners if they've noticed this as well on their wheels, and if so, maybe we will just have to put up with it. I've noticed when applying the brakes what I would consider normally, that you definatly get the impression that these brakes mean business. I've never had a brake dust problem with any of my Dodge Ram trucks.
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Rambit I have the same problem and I upgraded my brakes to Brembo, I always notice brake dust right after I drive the car to my first destination. If I remember the SRT-8 has the Brembo brakes , right? Maybe it has to do with the pads from Brembo.