napalm39

I bought my car a few months ago, and noticed this stuff, but since I just replaced the Wagon Wheels with thin spokes you can see it a lot more. What is this? It is on all 4 brakes.

$hawn

Looks like some sort of anti squeak stuff.

ALVETTE00

Also looks like the person who did the brakes uses alot of brake clean on the caliper or that heavy duty rim cleaner. Tends to turn them light grey to white.

sneakelman

It's poorly applied brake quiet.
Looks more like somebody poored a bucket of tar on the pads. But, nothing to worry about mechanically.

Allzwell

It'll get the job done but somebody didn't give a $h!+ when they were putting it on.

V-man

YUP... nothing to worry about mechanically but bush league from a brake installation point of view. Should be easy to clean if you take the pads out of the caliper.

mythirdwish

akempucky...gorilla snot.......poor workmanship...I don't think that stuff is necessary on a Corvette...I put the pads on a clean caliper and use a very slight amount of brake grease on the contact points...my $.02

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TheDEfan

take those things apart and clean e'm up. Here's a good how to thread

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1799588

PostShawn

It looks like there is a finger print in there. You can probably find out who did it and kick their butt, I mean tell them to do a better job next time.

DefenderC5

You don't need that much brake quiet on the back of the pads as you can see there isn't that much caliper contact. I greased mine only in the contact areas. You can clean it off if it bugs you that much, or leave it alone... it won't hurt anything.

JMc

Just wondering... Could that stuff be the end result of painting the hats of the rotors with a shaker can and not caring if the overspray gets on the braking surface of the rotor, figuring it would just burn off?