Breaking in Brakes?
Re: Breaking in Brakes?
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.
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.
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Re: Breaking in Brakes?
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
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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.
.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.
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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