Breaking in DS3000 pads
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Re: Breaking in DS3000 pads (yoshi234)
No instructions with the Ds3000 but there were instructions with my axxis REAR pads. They look like the same instructions that Yoshi listed.....thanks.... 
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Re: Breaking in DS3000 pads (Dan)
Race cars break in pads at the track. Just go easy the first session, and give them a good chance to cool off.
In a pinch though, you can slap them on, and go full bore, but I wouldn't do it if it wasn't a race.
Warren
In a pinch though, you can slap them on, and go full bore, but I wouldn't do it if it wasn't a race.
Warren
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Re: Breaking in DS3000 pads (George Knighton)
damn... what if u dont "bed" them in? meaning just driving them regularly?
It amounts to the same thing.
You're instructed to bed the pads so that it's safe to use them at speed if you're going on the track immediately or shortly after putting them on.
Honestly the best way to bed pads in is to drive them on the public roads and use them normally until your track day.
It amounts to the same thing.
You're instructed to bed the pads so that it's safe to use them at speed if you're going on the track immediately or shortly after putting them on.
Honestly the best way to bed pads in is to drive them on the public roads and use them normally until your track day.
The idea behind the bedding procedure on Carbotech's website (that Yoshi linked to) is that you need to get the brake pads very hot before taking them out on the track. Driving on public roads and using them normally will not get them very hot at all.
I have found (with most decent brake pads, on most cars) that, the first time you get the brake pads really hot - whether you do it using the bedding procedure, or on the track - the pads will fade, big time. (Fading means that they lose their effectiveness, so it feels like you have less braking power. This phenomenon, with brand new pads, is sometimes called "green pad syndrome".) If you go out on the track without having gotten the brake pads very hot beforehand, you may find that your car feels like it has no brakes after 3-5 laps. Bring the car into the paddock and keep driving it around an empty area without using the brakes, to allow the brakes to cool down.
The second time you go out on the track, they may still fade a little bit, but not as much - so again, cool them down. By the third time you go out on the track, they shouldn't be fading at all.
The idea behind the bedding procedure is to get them really hot and heat cycle them on the street, so that when you go out on the track, you won't find severe fade making you bring the car back into the pits.
[Modified by censored, 11:11 PM 12/13/2002]
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