Thanks for the offer though Jon - appreciate it. You're right, I can always hack up some local mountains to clear my mind of all the cr*p!.
20 years of being in the Motor Trade including working as a Technical Engineer for 2 Manufacturers disagrees with this.Mike
So you think a 5 mile drive does bed the brakes in?
So you think a 5 mile drive does bed the brakes in?
Five miles would be shorter than I'd choose to road test a car I'd just fitted brakes to. But it will totally depend on what you do in those five miles. In five miles you can have a set of standard road car discs glowing cherry red, if you want to.
A lot of the bedding in process is about the repeated heating/cooling cycle, but the biggest part of bedding car brakes in is to wear the the new brake pad surface down to match the unevenly worn disc surface, so that you have full pad contact.
michaelbowden - it'll go forward up to about 3mph, then transmission stops. Who know's what goes on inside gearboxes. the only mechanics I ever did was stripping down Lambrettas, but they were pretty simple.
Think the best thing I can do is get the number of the guys that will be stripping the gearbox down and get them to report to me independantly. They maybe able to say if it's been run dry or something.Guess it just the hassle festival season in my life at the moment.
So will it continue to drive at very low speed, or does it creep forward then stop?
Mike
Given it's 100 mile or so for them to be bedded in, sometimes more, I'd say that a decent mechanic wouldn't release the car without explaining the need and procedure so you can do it yourself. They're going to make no dent whatsoever in the bedding-in process on a 10 minute blast up the road.
20 years of being in the Motor Trade including working as a Technical Engineer for 2 Manufacturers disagrees with this.Mike
Fair enough. Not trying to argue. I do as much as I can on my cars due to the aforementioned dicking around with my cars that seems to happen when I use a garage, so I fix and bed in my own brakes. I wouldn't consider them good for "hard" driving for at least 100 miles, depending on the pads.
The trouble with accelerated pad bedding in on road cars is that the discs arent actually designed to cope with that heat and as such you can warp them far to easy.
We dont do it on MTB's and I dont do it on Motorbikes either. They get the hard as you can bed in process. Which works!!!!
