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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:27 pm 
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Do they need the shields installed? What purpose do they serve?

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They keep the heat in the disc.
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They're meant to keep stones out. I've run mine for years without.
They used to get taken off because they reckon the brakes cooled better without them. Probably right I guess, but pads a better these days too.

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Mick wrote:
They're meant to keep stones out. I've run mine for years without.
They used to get taken off because they reckon the brakes cooled better without them. Probably right I guess, but pads a better these days too.

My experience is they keep stones IN (well, they did on my 998 ones).
I think the real reason was to help keep salt and slush off the rotors, that's probably important in UK but not here.

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Yeah, My set would stay off as they have if I wasn't on the original fit bandwagon... Lucky discs are cheap!

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