Brakes

Straight away. Covering 500 miles with new brakes was not something I wanted to try in an M5 without bedding them in properly first.
 
I just had discs and pads all round on my 182 and was told to brake nice and hard a couple of times and that they would bed in properly after a couple of heat cycles.
 
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Do the pads not come with instructions?

My last set came with instructions for about 5 50% full stops followed by some 100% full stops. Then again they are track pads with the bedding in distance described in terms of laps and braking zones, lol.
 
Garage that fitted mine (RenaultSport Specialist) did a few hard stops around the industrial estate as a test drive to bed them in, then I just collected it and drove normally. Well, not really all that normal as I made epic time back from Dorset that evening ;) :cool:.
 
Drive normally.

I've done this for more years than I care to remember, in both car & truck as far as my brakes are concerned.

I doubt Fox is an "all out" kind of driver, whilst I've read & been told hard useage is a good way to bed in brakes in a hard driven car, I would imagine most people would not do this, most people being your general buying public, I would guess just using them normally would be what they were designed for.
 
Everytime i've done brakes on my cars i've always done a few hard slowdowns from 60, and they've been fine. If I was to wait for 500 miles the car would be sat there for 4 months!!
 
Straight out of the box - 4-5 medium pedal applications from 70mph to 30mph with a fair gap in between, followed by 2-3 full pedal applications from 110mph to 50mph.

Works for me and the Caterham, AP setup with Pagid ceramic-based pads. May not work as well on a normal road car ;) :p
 
I am lucky in the fact that about half a mile from my house there is a very short dual carriageway with roundabouts.

So I do the aggressive method.. never had a problem ..
 
On the MX-5 I fitted Axxis Ultimate pads and they said something like anything other than approximately 10 stops from 50-10 repeatedly, 1/4 mile apart would result in poorer braking performance over the lifetime of the pad.

I did exactly what they suggested down a dual carraigeway at night and there was smoke pouring off them but once they had cooled down a) they were ferocious and b) they never smoked again no matter how hard I tried.
 
I have utilised the hard stopping at first method for my previous sets. Don't know if I got any benefit or not though, as I haven't killed a set of discs/pads yet.
 
I've never done anything other than drive normally, I don't see it as necessary. All the brakes I've changed have worked excellently, I didn't even read the instructions for the EBC Yellowstuff pads I fitted to the MX5, I just fitted them and they worked brilliantly from cold straight away, drove it around normally for a while and they were great, took it for a hoon and they again worked great, and never had any problems.

The only thing I never do when braking is to hold the car on the brakes after stopping from a reasonable speed as this is how you get uneven deposits on the disks that can cause juddering.
 
I always fit my discs then take the car out at night (That way I can get onto a close NSL country lane without braking). Then brake from 70 to 10mph hardish then repeat this process around five times. The reason for this is to make sure material is evenly spread around the disc to reduce warping of discs (discs do not actually warp it's the material that has made the disc uneven).

R32GTR 4 pot calipers + 200sx Discs redrilled to 4 stud. They have been fine for the past 20k miles.
 
Clarkey said:
Just brake as you normally would and don't think twice about it is my opinion. If you need to stamp on the brake then you don't have any choice, no reason you would though in day to day driving.
You will be able to see the wear pattern on the disc, once there is no unswept area it's fully ready.

FWIW, at Donington park we destroyed a set of front pads in shoes e36 so fitted a new set. Went straight out and gave them absolutely everything with no mercy, never caused any problems.
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I Vote for this really.

Maybe one big stop when they first are on but after than I just tend to pay no notice
 
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