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  1. BThayer23

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    #2 BThayer23, Aug 21, 2009
    What's this "pre-bedding" you speak of? I've never heard of this.
     
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    #3 M.Bonanni, Aug 21, 2009
    When you get a new set of brake pads you are supposed to bed them in. Basically you gradually build up the heat in the pads for the first time and it results in extended pad and rotor life and increased performance. Usually you have to find a desolate road with no traffic to do acceleration and braking to bed the brakes in on the car or waste your first track session bedding in the pads. Carbotech offers pre-bedding for their pads for a small fee so you can just put them in and go. They use machines similar to this to do it...

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    #4 cct1, Aug 21, 2009
    But don't you have to bed them into the rotor they're going to be run on? You need to get some of the compound on the rotors too--seems like this would only take care of half the equation.

    No matter, glad to see you are carrying the Carbotech's; it's a fantastic pad--I've had great luck with it!
     
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    #5 M.Bonanni, Aug 21, 2009
    Normally when bedding in pads and rotors you will have to heat them up, then cool them down to do it properly. You will still want to do a few hard stops on the pre-bed pads to transfer material to the rotors, but you won't have to then wait for them to cool down before they are at 100%. So you can basically bed the pads to the rotors on your warm up lap and be good to go.
     
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    #6 Nathan, Aug 21, 2009
    Oh ahh, lets play semantics here..

    The term is "pre-burnished". Pre-burnished pads still need to be properly bedded to help assure that the pad and the rotor have an opportunity to mate correctly. The advantage is the actual bedding process is shorter.

    "Pre-bedded" would be where both the pads and rotors are brought to temp and cooled for a few cycles. These would be sold in matched sets of pads and rotors.
     
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    #7 M.Bonanni, Aug 21, 2009
    Yes, so basically pre-burnished is probably a better way to describe it. :D
     
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    #8 Nathan, Aug 21, 2009
    For my next trick I'll tackle the "grease" vs "lubricant" issue. :D
     
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    #9 old81, Aug 21, 2009
    Not sure you want to hurt the program rating of MA with this topic. :devil: :cornut:

    Good definition for pre-burnished.

    What does this add to cost per set of pads? I run XP10/XP8 in my 07 MINI.
     
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    #10 M.Bonanni, Aug 21, 2009
    $20/set
     
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    #11 cct1, Aug 21, 2009
    But I heard if you pre-burnish too much you'll go blind....