Breaking in new pads and rotors

95escahoe · Sep 30, 2016

If you install new pads and rotors do you still need to break them in anymore? I just brake easy for 50 miles or so?

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Tonyrodz · Sep 30, 2016

I think it is. Easy driving just to bed them in. Once I burned up a set of front pads in like 2,000 miles , was in my Formula bird. Different beast but I think same idea. In the beginning, nice n easy .

95escahoe · Sep 30, 2016

Tonyrodz said:
I think it is. Easy driving just to bed them in. Once I burned up a set of front pads in like 2,000 miles , was in my Formula bird. Different beast but I think same idea. In the beginning, nice n easy .

Thanks, I'm sure this will get a ton of different answers lol

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Sasquatch · Sep 30, 2016

Some manufactures vary on how they suggest you bed in your brakes. My R-1 rotors said to get up to 55-60 mph and hit the brakes moderately hard down to 15 mph and repeat that around 3-4 times if i remember correctly. I have also has rotors that said just to avoid aggressive braking for the first 5-700 miles and to take it easy for that time period.

Check the boxes to see if there was any instructions on how they want it done.

95escahoe · Sep 30, 2016

Sasquatch said:
Some manufactures vary on how they suggest you bed in your brakes. My R-1 rotors said to get up to 55-60 mph and hit the brakes moderately hard down to 15 mph and repeat that around 3-4 times if i remember correctly. I have also has rotors that said just to avoid aggressive braking for the first 5-700 miles and to take it easy for that time period.

Check the boxes to see if there was any instructions on how they want it done.

Thanks, wasn't any instructions at all

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Fosscore · Sep 30, 2016

Here is the info from the PowerStop website and what I did when I installed my PowerStop pads and rotors.

http://www.powerstop.com/brake-pad-break-in-procedure/

bottomline2000 · Oct 1, 2016

I have a coworker that goes thru brakes constantly. He has no clue what bedding brakes is even after I told him. I always bed them in like r1 concepts recommends. I drive the hell out of my tahoe and he drives his avalanche like granpa and i get 3x the brake life he does.

I think it critical to get that heat in them early to mate everything properly, make them stink and make sure you don't come to a complete stop while doing it to avoid hot spottimg the rotors. I'm sure you'll get different opinions on this depending on the manufacturer.

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