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Anyone take the time to properly bed in your brakes?

Old 09-06-2006, 10:03 AM
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Default Anyone take the time to properly bed in your brakes?

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Nobody? Wow.
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I will. thanks for the reminder.
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Default Yes - but not necessary on cars comming off the showroom floor

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Default Emailed Dave Zeckhausen about this, here's what he said...

You absolutely must bed in the brakes on a new car, since there isn't any pad transfer layer on those new rotors.

Dave mentioned that you might want to wait until you've broken in the motor!

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