Brake pads bedding

Hi everyone, I need an opinion on new pads and rotors if they should be bedded or not. There's a lot of videos out there but wanted opinions from uguys who did your own brake jobs. Thanks guys. MB.

Should you? Certainly. Mandatory? No, but an advisable best practice. As an adult, I have always bedded brakes on the fun fleet for best performance asap, but also as a shake down test of my work. Within the past year or so I did brakes on a Tr6 (EBC Greenstuff, resurfaced rotors and drums) and 996 (O/E or OEM for everything) bedding both. Noticeably, the Textars on the 996 felt a bit wooden on the first stop at the end of the driveway, but otherwise no noticeable difference other than peace of mind knowing the work was done well.

Of course you should. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, just go to an industrial area on a Sunday, and do 3 or 4 hard stops from 60+ MPH down to just short of a full stop. Then drive them for a bit too cool them off. Rinse and repeat if you'd like. If you don't, it will take a long time for the pads to full seat with the rotors. I always do this when I do a brake job on any car.

That's funny, industrial area. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. In the mountains they don't really grow them. Thank you for your input, I do usually bed them, but I'm not going to track the car, it's just my cruiser. I will bed them as soon as the snow disappears. Enjoy your day. MB.

Go to Powerstop's web site and use their brake pad break-in procedures. I have done this procedure on many of my cars right after new pads were installed and have never had squealing or brake shimmy as a result.

Yeah, for street driving they start bedding in as soon as you start driving around town. A couple of deep dives when exiting off ramps with heavy braking should get them set. You need to go a few steps further if you are going to bed them in for track driving which is very important. Plenty of you tube videos available on the topic.

You can also bed them in just riding the break at highway speeds for mile.. The point is to heat them up and also lightly scrub the rotor surface.. For track cars I keep a set oflightly used rotors that are seasoned/bedded. I use them to bed new pads, then put new rotors on the car and bed them with the new pads. Yes its fussy, it also makes pads last a long time. Raw steel on new pads doesn't build heat like new pads on a nicely tempered seasoned rotor.. Just a stupid track rat trick..

Some resources on the topic. We always advise a good bed-in. If nothing else, it will keep your squealing noises suppressed. You Tube You Tube

Just remember not to completely stop and sit there after doing the bedding. It�s the velocity of the vehicle at speed that does the cooling and prevents uneven cooling of the hot surfaces.

I have developed a squeak on my 2024 Macan S with 5000 miles. Will bedding the brakes help with the squeak. Squeak is only at low low speeds, less than 10 mph, coming to a stop light or slowly advancing in stop and go traffic. Jim

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Sure, it will help. But keep in the back of your mind that everytime you get a car wash or it rains, you are washing off brake pad compound from your rotors and they will squeel all over again. My last 2 Audi Q7s have made a hell of a squeel until I get some new brake pad on them after a wash or rain. Sure, I can get a different set of brake pads but I prefer the bite from the OE pads versus a more quiet pad and lack of stopping power. All you gotta do is find an empty parking lot and do a couple of hard braking rotations in a straight line and you will get some pad on the rotors and the squeel will go away until the next car wash or rain.