Is This Normal... Or Does Wearever Brake Pads Suck
04-05-2005, 02:15 PM
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I just got my Wearever Brake pads installed and my Rotors Machined. Is the Machined rotors and new brake pads need to have a "break in" period?
if not
WEAR EVER CHEAP BRAKE PADS SUCKS.. SOO WEAK!!!!
if not
WEAR EVER CHEAP BRAKE PADS SUCKS.. SOO WEAK!!!!
04-05-2005, 02:32 PM
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With machined rotors, or new rotors (actually when you machine them they behave like new rotors would at the begining) you HAVE TO bed them in. After the machining process the rotor surface is not as even and adapted to the pad as when a few miles has passed.
Drive slow for lets say 200 miles, to aid in the process, you can softly hit the brakes for 2 second intervals to simulate soft braking (you can carefully do this with your left foot without having to take your right foot from the gas pedal) and that way in let's say 100 miles you would have hit the brakes like ten times more than if you only did normal braking.
Do not brake hard, you could damage your rotors and pads.
Drive slow for lets say 200 miles, to aid in the process, you can softly hit the brakes for 2 second intervals to simulate soft braking (you can carefully do this with your left foot without having to take your right foot from the gas pedal) and that way in let's say 100 miles you would have hit the brakes like ten times more than if you only did normal braking.
Do not brake hard, you could damage your rotors and pads.
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QUOTE (fonseca @ Apr 5 2005, 08:24 PM)
I warned you about them in your other thread.
Hey thanks alot fo ryou help... I forgot that the Machine Marks will decrease stopping power.. I shall bed them in!!!!!
04-05-2005, 02:39 PM
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also, you need to remember. Modern brake pads are glued to the metal mounting tabs. Bedding them in burns off the excess glue and "Degasses" them so that they work better.
it's sad, but I can remember when brake pads were held to their mounting tabs by rivits.
it's sad, but I can remember when brake pads were held to their mounting tabs by rivits.
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QUOTE (Mad-Machine @ Apr 5 2005, 08:39 PM)
it's sad, but I can remember when brake pads were held to their mounting tabs by rivits.
And I can remember how awesome asbestos pads were. They never squealed, and lasted many years. Now I'm lucky if I get even one year out of my pads.