Brake and rotor question.

[Jeff in W.C.]

This has been bugging me for about a week. I'm having my rims powder coated. While it was my intent to properly mark/set aside each rotor so the right one would go back on the right and the left on the left. That way the pad and the rotors would be matched. Well, you can guess where I'm going with this now. In taking the rotors off, I got them mixed up. I know I should have marked them somehow before taking them, but I was 100% sure before I started I could keep them separate. Well, they got mixed up. Now, I'm left with the following options

put them on and don't worry
get new pads

Is there another option?

[Tom H Ca]

JMHO: If the pads are like new, put them on and carefully see how they do. If they are almost worn out, change them since your in there.

Tom

[Rob Frankham]

If you put the old pads on, and you get them in the 'wrong' place, they'll have to bed back into the discs...

If you get new pads, they'll definitely have to bed in to the discs...

Assuming there is a decent amount of friction material left on the discs, fit them... if there's not replace them. In either case treat them like they're new pads until they are bedded in... that is to say ride in such a way as to reduce the need for heavy braking for a couple of hundred miles.

Rob

[jagarra]

Good advise on pads, out of curiosity do you have original rotors on bike or after market ones. EBC has a swirl drill pattern, stock may be solid no holes or elongated holes.

[Jeff in W.C.]

I replaced the rotors about 15ish years ago. They are Grimeca rotors that have a stock appearance.

[Jeff in W.C.]

Thanks guys.