Rear brake dust shields necessary?

Technical Area Wheels, Tyres & Brakes
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Yes they have simply rusted away by the looks of it. If you want to keep motoring remove them or the one. The rear brakes don’t get much heat to them they just serve as a shield, the fronts scoop a little air for cooling.

My NC fronts rusted more than the rears, check those too. I’ve changed the fronts on mine, hubs off I’m afraid same as the rear to remove properly and replace. The fronts were a pig on mine to remove, the hubs get welded on with years of rust..

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I’ve bought rears for my NC.

Plan is cut the minimum amount of shield away to manipulate over hub, then use a quality metal to metal bond to keep in place.

There’s a vid on YouTube where a guy does similar but uses 3 M4 self tappers to hold in place.

I used the bond method on my c320 Merc rears.

Still in place years later.

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Yep, same here. This is the method I’ll be using to replace mine:

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Yep that’s the guy :+1: