Tailored for high performance cars, carbon ceramic brakes are more fragile to chemicals. Here’s how you clean them, avoiding potential damage.
For the bulk of advice and a step-by-step process, we arranged a visit to the Midlands base of Topaz Detailing to sample a pre-PPF clean on a Titanium Green Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, fitted with carbon ceramic brakes and the 21″ gloss black 5-spoke wheels.
The visit was hosted by Ben Atkins, the social media manager of Topaz’s Midlands centre, who alongside the team of pro-detailers on site, talked me through the process of washing down and detailing the Aston. The key advice is:
Avoid using wheel cleaners that are either acidic or alkalic. Carbon ceramic brakes are quite delicate compared to steel discs and don’t react to products in the same way. So, it’s always best to opt for wheel cleaning products or fallout removers that are pH neutral.
Surface Transforms plc (LON:SCE) is a manufacturer of next-generation carbon-ceramic brake discs for automotive and aircraft applications and has been certified to IS9001-2000 since 2008 and was certified to TS16949 automotive quality accreditation and AS9100C aerospace quality accreditation in 2015.
