Bedding the Brake pads/rotors?
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Burning Brakes
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From: North\East Wisconsin
Bedding the Brake pads/rotors?
Bedding the Brake pads/rotors? How important is this and what works best? When we take the car in to a dealer for brakes, does he bed the brakes? Just wondering.
Safety Car
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From: San Diego, CA "leaf" "tee" "e"
Very unlikely. That would be a sign of quality service. They're better at dropping cars off lifts, over and under torqueing fasteners and scratching the paint. There are a few good dealerships out there, but they're few and far between.
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Originally Posted by leaftye
Very unlikely. That would be a sign of quality service. They're better at dropping cars off lifts, over and under torqueing fasteners and scratching the paint. There are a few good dealerships out there, but they're few and far between.
Melting Slicks
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Try a search in the C5 autocross section. There is a lot of good info there. Basically it goes like this, get up to 40mph and press the brakes hard enough not to lock them and slow to 5mph. do this 3 times. get up to 60mph and do the same (3 times). Get up to 90mph and do it all again(3X). You want them to heat up to 1000 degrees. Drive for 1/2 hour to cool brakes and let sit 24 hours(not just over night) Go out again and do it once more.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
Last edited by drcoffee; Dec 18, 2004 at 09:53 AM.
Racer
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From: Denver co
Originally Posted by drcoffee
Try a search in the C5 autocross section. There is a lot of good info there. Basically it goes like this, get up to 40mph and press the brakes hard enough not to lock them and slow to 5mph. do this 3 times. get up to 60mph and do the same (3 times). Get up to 90mph and do it all again(3X). You want them to heat up to 1000 degrees. Drive for 1/2 hour to cool brakes and let sit 24 hours(not over night) Go out again and do it once more.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
however different pads have different break in procedure.
most of them recommend the one you describe but some pads ask for a different break in.
Normally it is described on or inside the box of the pads.
Racer
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From: Denver co
Originally Posted by drcoffee
Try a search in the C5 autocross section. There is a lot of good info there. Basically it goes like this, get up to 40mph and press the brakes hard enough not to lock them and slow to 5mph. do this 3 times. get up to 60mph and do the same (3 times). Get up to 90mph and do it all again(3X). You want them to heat up to 1000 degrees. Drive for 1/2 hour to cool brakes and let sit 24 hours(not over night) Go out again and do it once more.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
I just did day 1 and checked the wheels. Man is there a lot of black dust on the rims. It's going to be 15 degrees tomorrow so I probably can't get them up to temp no matter how hard I brake. It'll have to wait for warmer weather.
however different pads have different break in procedure.
most of them recommend the one you describe but some pads ask for a different break in.
Normally it is described on or inside the box of the pads.
the outside temperature won't change a lot of the rotor temperature.
two weeks ago I went on track by 30 degrees.
the video showed the front rotors orange which is way over 1000 degrees F
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Originally Posted by drcoffee
let sit 24 hours(not over night)
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