EBC Greenstuff

[Darren555]

Do new Greenstuff pads need bedding in gently of a few good applications?

 

[Martin_172]

i use green stuff on my cars and do 5 or 6 30 to 10mph runs then maby another 5 80-10/20mph runs to bed them in.

just keep moving when doing it dont do 30-0mph hard stops or 80-0mph stops

 

[Diesel_Power]

It seems alot of people on cliosport like to bed in their brakes by hard braking a few times and ive seen quite alot of threads about knackered pads/discs. I tend to brake quite lightly for a hundred miles or so before i give it some hard braking and ive never had any problems with my brakes.

 

[caister]

As said just going easy on the brakes for a couple of hundred miles is the best way to bed them in

 

[Lunner]

How do you think race cars bed their pads in???

Using them hard, just gotta know what you're doing, ignorance is what f***s pads/discs, like chinese whispers, a mrethod gets bounced around so much important bits get missed out, or bits changed

 

[Martin_172]

bedding in brakes hard wont do any harm if done properly, just dont go from 80mph to 0 and keep the brakes pressed!

 

[Diesel_Power]

Bedding brakes in lightly wont do them any harm and seems a heck of alot safer and better method than stomping on the brakes, no chinese whispers about that. Im not saying it doesnt work, just going from my experiences and the sensible choice of not taking the risk of bedding them in too hard.

 

[fuel_slut]

I had a friend who fitted new disc and pads, then he went out and did a series of 100-0 stops! Much to his suprise his disc's warped and he glazed the pads making them useless, idiot.

Just slowlt bed them in first.

 

[White16valver]

Discs and pads need to mold to each other, therefore do a couple of hundred miles of pootling about to wear them into shape.

Then do a few good hard slowing exercises (not stops where you then sit on the pedal as that'll warp the dics), like Martin_89 said, to properly bed the pads in.

It does make all the difference.