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Old Apr 11, 2011
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Re: Breaking in Brakes?

Originally Posted by civicexracer
I guess the engineers are just messing with us then...

http://www.hawkperformance.com/performance/burnish.php

http://www.hawkperformance.com/performance/faq.php



http://www.ebcbrakes.com/assets/typicalq&a.html


http://www.buybrakes.com/brembo/faq.html#q23


http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/tech/...jsp?techid=85&
^Shows info and bedding process for multiple companies


Kinda hard to ignore when just about every big company out there selling brakes says you should lol. It's not like they're making money off of you doing this, they are suggesting this for your benefit.
The more you say the more I think I'm gonna try it before I rule it out. Seeing I've never bedded my brakes maybe there will be a difference... sorry for being a bit stubborn just stuck in my ways I guess.

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Re: Breaking in Brakes?

Originally Posted by thefatalepic
I wonder if driving through Turnbull Canyon would do the trick... I used to drive through there all the time (a few miles of windy road and a LOT of up and down hills). Sounds like this would be perfect because I have to ride the brakes 50% of the time and there isn't any reason to come to a complete stop until I've driven through the whole thing. This would heat up my pads quite a bit .

I am leaning toward the best way being braking from 60 to 10 five times in a row and then just letting them cool off. But the above was just a thought - er, thinking out loud.
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You will want your brakes at 100% stopping power when doing something like that.
Or bedding or 1 week normal driving. Then you can pass places like that. Just after the pad change, you will notice that not all of the brake surface is shiny - that's the pads that are still not bedded to the used disk. So that portion is actually not providing friction.
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Re: Breaking in Brakes?

Thanks sdaidoji! Always stopping me from doing something stupid with my car. Lol...
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Re: Breaking in Brakes?

Pheeew! got to you in time!
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