How to Bed Your New Brake Pads | DIY | ECS Tuning
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2025
- Caleb shows you how to properly bed in your brakes after installing new pads and rotors.
Bedding in your brakes helps transfer an even layer of brake pad material onto the brake rotor which assists in smoother brake operation and improved braking power. It is important to do this to maximize the life of your new pads.
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Put new brakes on my front axle and used this process. I swear my Xterra has NEVER stopped so good. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Thank you.. i did my first change of my front brake pads today... you came up in my google question... and did not disappoint...
The requirements for mine were 15 sets of 50 mph down to 10-15 mph, I was a bit scared after the pads had gotten hot and squishy but after I let them cool they work almost too good 😂
Just did the same on a work/camper sprinter van. I did have the owner secure things before that 😄
Pro tip: Look in your rearview mirror before standing on the brakes....
😂😂😂
I remember years ago a salesman from Hendrick BMW was demonstrating the breaking capabilities of an M5 on a busy four-lane highway 🛣️ m front of the dealership. He failed to look in the rearview mirror and got rear ended in the process. I would assume that salesman lost his job that day.
Your VW sounds pretty boss
Yes it does
I do like the sound of the car
Thats a fake noise from soundactor, no way near the real sound of the engine.
So I just drive to work then.
You must live in LA 😂
LDN 😂😂😂
I think different pads require more or less bedding. When I bought track pads they needed five more stops from 45 to 5. It was wild. Once they bedded in the power and modulation was ridiculous. It’s like the pad completely changed from a standard ceramic pad to a crazy aggressive semi metallic / carbon
Hi from Australia and thanks ECS, perfect explanation. A question , the VW, what is it?, I heard a lovely V8 sound, Very sweet!. Thanks guys, Rob
Thanks for the video!
I just bought FRONT hawk hps pads from ECS but the rears from ebay because I only got free shipping for the fronts for some reason. Adding the rears brought up $56 shipping. That's insane! I'm guessing the weight was too heavy, but ECS should definitely look into that.
Oh shit I've just changed the brake pads and discs and I've done about 40 odd breaking manoeuvres some were aggressive 😄 I saw smoke hehehe. I'm sure they will be fine.
How he’d even get the brakes hot enough, with a jacket that cool.
Haha jk. Thanks for the video!
Love the sound of your car. Is that stock?
Thank you for this, excellent tutorial.
Perfect to the point Vid... love it. Curious though, is it the exhaust causing that hard vibration at low RPM's when you accelerate?
The car is stage 2 with stage 3 DSG and all mounts are either solid or poly so there’s some pretty intense NVH at low RPMS.
Thanks! This was very helpful! Do you know if Hawk recommends different bedding procedures for different levels of performance pads? Was this video just for street pads?
Great editing
Hi, I take it this video is for high-spec brakes? I've got budget pads and discs on my car; would this video still apply?
do these suggestions apply to breaking in new brakes on a brand new BMW as well? Thanks!
Any car. Not vehicle specific. More so brake pad/rotor specific.
Good luck finding that miracle road with no traffic
Thanks for your helpful video
Caleb, at first glance I thought you were driving a Charger, but my wife being the cool attentive type that she is, noticed quickly you are driving what we both agree is the sexiest VW we ever seen, but have no clue what model you own. Could you help us out on this? Damn nice car from what we can see. Thanks In Advance. Todd and Ronda K.
Thank you👍🏻
Thanks brother 🤙🏼👍🏼
Nice car to bed brakes in. Nice car to do anything in 😂
What does “bedding in” do
Transfers an even layer of pad material to the rotor surface. Better braking performance vs if there wasn’t any. It happens anyway when you have driven around enough on new brakes but it’s better to do it this way so you don’t find yourself sitting on the brake pedal if the brakes are hot.
just go to work at 8am, traffic will do the job!
With akebono pads you can skip this step as they dont require no bed in
So 10 soft ones, 2 big ones? I’ll take it on the highway for this.
Not a good idea to slow down to 5mph on the highway😂
And we wonder why we never heard from Han again😂
@@kimz37Yeah haha, I do it at like 2 AM when there is no cars. If a car is behind me I have a V8 Twin Turbo. I can go back to highway speeds in a couple seconds.
Just bought powerstop brakes/rotors 2nd time after 5yrs they been good. Problem is where I live in New York there are cameras everywhere and the most you can go without a ticket in the mail is 34mph, 25mph is the limit but it activates 10mph above. So I will just have to do 34 to 5 a few times and see what happens. I actually didn't bed them the first time and I never had an issue. 😁
Mine are still too spongy. I need to k back to the garage
spongy? maybe need to bleed them
Did you do front and back together?
@@NIRAM_J I only did the rear brakes
@@disembark Try doing them both I ran into a lot of problems doing that with my front pads I didn't change the rear and my front pads and rotors didn't hold up at all.
@Jaime Marin Jr alright thanks alot for the advice! Appreciate it
So you hold the break down till you hit 5
Yep
nice
i love how those compagnie act like it's doable in most cities smh 🤦♂🤦♂
“Officer, I ………….”
I was scaring people I had to run away
That thang sound nasty
My gosh, after the 5th i was reading to puke
Yeah,, no. None of that matters. Wtf?
What are you on about? This 100% matters and if you don’t do it, the next time you go to slam on your brakes trying to avoid an accident your brakes will slip since there is no traction. Whoever told you that this isn’t necessary is trying to get you killed or is just a plain idiot. It’s one thing to be ignorant but to talk about something you know nothing about is just stupid.
This is clickbait since modern ceramic brakes don't need to be bedded in. This is for older organic compound brakes. Sounds like you don't have any engineers at your company, this is an incredibly uneducated take that could only be thought of by uneducated workers.
Some people might still use the original compound. This video is highly informative. Why even watch the video?
@RKCorinth why get offended by the fact a random youtuber is wrong? Jesus Christ get a hobby. You sound really stupid if being told SOMEONE ELSE is wrong offends you.
@RKCorinth Organic brakes have been phased out years ago because of their cancer causing compounds. New cars are specified for ceramics. If you're putting organics on your cars that's fine, you sound like someone who would voluntarily huff cancer.
They have not been phased out. It may be more of a commonality now to see newer vehicles that come pre-equipped with ceramic pads from the manufacturer; yes, however there are still plenty of new vehicles that come standard with semi-metallic/organic compound pads. Some people just prefer them. Both have their pros and cons. It really comes down to personal preference.
@@b18tuner5875 They still make organic compound pads. They started restricting how much asbestos and other metals manufacturers can use in them starting in 2010 but they are not phased out as you mentioned. Do more research before slandering the employees of this company.