[Closed] Cleaning disc brake rotors

Personally I'd try my best to never clean my rotors and definitely not the pads

You'll only have to bed them in again and unless you've got oil or fluid on em then I'd leave em

What he said^.

I think I got some oil on them, hence the question. Basically, I want to know whether the product in question is safe to use.

I bought disk cleaner before realising its a total waste of money/time/effort.

Unless you've contaminated them, normal usage keeps the disks clean.

Yes - it's probably safe (in that you won't die)

However, you'll need to get any residue off the rotor (tbh - I've done it with Fairy Liquid and lots of rinsing and drying)

I've also recovered sets of contaminated pads by chucking them on the hob to burn the oil off. Others have used the dishwasher - chuck your drive train in too for a nice clean shiny cassette)

Just means you've got fun ahead re-bedding the pads and rotor but you'd have to do it anyway if you'd bought new ones

light rub with some wet and dry seemed to do the trick for my disks (wouldn't want to do it too often but ok occasionally i'd guess) and heating pads over the hob has worked in the past too

I heated some pads over the hob once, only to crack the pads as they must have gotten very hot.

Go for a ride, get them wet and muddy. They'll soon be working just fine again after a couple of hard stops.

Seems the only time i have problems with my brakes is when i clean them with anything more than a squirt of the hose.

isoproponol?

That morgans stuff looks like it's just a detergent? So will be fine and might help a bit.

I forgot to add some people have had luck by putting discs in the dishwasher, but I've not tried it myself as I don't have one.

I'm guessing any sort of determent should work, maybe even washing up liquid?

i've just used meths before.Don't think it leaves a residue like white spirit does.