Carbon fibre brakes are a health risk to drivers?

[T-Bird]

well is it worse than the asbestos they use in normal brake pads, that's the real question, that's like saying inhaleing unleaded gas fumes is better than leaded fumes.

[zondaland]

Not sure about America but asbestos was banned from brake pads a while back in Australia.

[gtx28]

Ya asbestos was banned here in the usa years back.

[possessed_beaver]

but i doubt carbon fibre will cause cancer, just think of all the crap particles we have sitting in our lungs right now!

[antonioledesma]

asbesto has been banned almost all around the world. It caused cancer

and we'll have to wait to see if the carbon fibre particles aren't health risk. If doctors don't know a thing, neither us

[SFDMALEX]

They should have some sord of a filter in the helmet, like a small respirator.

[redbaron]

I hope it isn't that a big health risk, but I doubt if they really find an answer.

It reminds me of the problem with diesels. To get them within the legal limits, the dieselparticles are also the size of asbestos. We are all inhaling it, but no doctor could guarantee it is unhealthy or not. So they keep making the particles smaller because they have to, because the limits get tighter. We all are the guinea pigs to see how far they could go. The biggest problem is that the problems, like cancer, start after ten years or more....

[Toronto]

carbon ceramic brakes or carbon fiber?
big diff

[T-Bird]

I hate to break it to you guys but there is still Asbestos in brake pads sold all around the world because they are produced in countries where it isn't illegal. It's a sad reality but it is completeley legal. that's why we have to take such careful precautions when cleaning the dust off brakes especially drums using a device that closes around the wheel hub assembly with gloves built into it and a vaccuum so that the dust can't spread around.

[graywolf624]

hate to break it to you guys but there is still Asbestos in brake pads sold all around the world because they are produced in countries where it isn't illegal.

Actually tbird, it is illegal to even sell pads in the states with asbestos. You will not find a single example with actual asbestos.

that's why we have to take such careful precautions when cleaning the dust off brakes especially drums using a device that closes around the wheel hub assembly with gloves built into it and a vaccuum so that the dust can't spread around.

No, this is because what they use now isn't that much better.

[bmagni]

Originally Posted by Toronto carbon ceramic brakes or carbon fiber? big diff

i guess its carbon ceramic, i just hope its not unhealthy or causes cancer

[ZfrkS62]

it should eventually clear itself out. i can't see any reason it would be an issue. If you think about all the shit in the air, i'm sure your lungs probably look worse than theirs in terms of foreign matter. It's just not as concentrated as what the carbon in the driver's lungs

[Yablokov]

i didnt think that brakes even had du particles comming off it><

[ZfrkS62]

Originally Posted by mrmojo77 Originally Posted by Toronto carbon ceramic brakes or carbon fiber? big diff That was not specified in the news. Which is more common?

The brakes are carboceramic (carbon pads on a ceramic rotor). Carbon fiber is strong, but wouldn't last for shit under the strain of what the brakes have to go through

[|Nuno|]

^^

The brakes are carbon (carbon pads and carbon disks).



Anyway, I hope this is sorted. I wouldn't want to see F1 cars back to steel disks.