breaking in brakes...what do you do
Just had all the brakes done on my vehicle. Vehicle brakes, as we all know are very important on vehicles, but IMO....more so on a tow vehicle. How do you break in your tow vehicle brakes ? I'm ...
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The stoptech bedding process really is meant for a WAY more aggressive pad then a street car or truck usually would have. I use a similar processes as the one posted for the my weekend fun car with an aggressive pad, and a more extreme for the race car (during on tract practice, not the streets.) Any street car, all you need is to drive it and give yourself a little extra stopping distance for the first couple of days of driving have always worked well for me.
Rotor wear was also mentioned, really it depends on the brake material and how aggressive it is....the more aggresive the faster it will wear through a rotor. I have a 98 S10 similar to the mentioned blazer where I put on new rotors when I aquired the truck and 140k miles later still running the same rotors, but on the 3rd set of pads (DC area commuting.)
On my weekend toy/track car im lucky if I can get 2 sets of pads on one set of rotors and those pads last a few track instruction weekends or about 20k miles. The race car....4 races and the whole setup is toast....its all bout the compounds.
Rotor wear was also mentioned, really it depends on the brake material and how aggressive it is....the more aggresive the faster it will wear through a rotor. I have a 98 S10 similar to the mentioned blazer where I put on new rotors when I aquired the truck and 140k miles later still running the same rotors, but on the 3rd set of pads (DC area commuting.)
On my weekend toy/track car im lucky if I can get 2 sets of pads on one set of rotors and those pads last a few track instruction weekends or about 20k miles. The race car....4 races and the whole setup is toast....its all bout the compounds.
