"Bedding in " New Brake Pads

[noyzboy]

Can you share your opinions on "bedding in “ new OEM brake pads.

It’s a long time ago since my FD had new pads installed, but now I have new OEM road pads

The car is road use only.

Way back when, before all coppers were younger than me, I think the advice was to bed brakes in

There are various techniques published in the interweb for this.

Such as

https://www.autozone.com/diy/brakes/bedding-brakes

Is this all out of date.

The average driver has never heard of “Bedding in “ brakes.

Surely the suppliers of OEM brake pads will now have formulated pads that don’t need “bedding in”

Do modern OEM pads need bedding in at all ??

Opinions please

 

[Gunnytron]

The instructions in that link are pretty much the same as the instructions that cam with my pads a few months back (for my daily, not the FD).

I think you still have to bed them in but nobody bothers telling you it needs doing. I have yet to speak to anyone, that has had their pads changed at a garage, that has been told to break them in. Not good.

 

[initialDean]

all pads need to go thru a bedding in process, especially if you have not changed your discs at the same time

 

[Grizzly]

100% need bedding in.......... even new disks etc

The pads are designed to leave deposits on the disks, the way i was told to do it was to accelerate upto 50-60mph and gently apply the brakes slowing down to 5mph (don't fully stop), then accelerate to 50-60mph and brake more aggressively again to 5mph (don't stop) then 50-60mph and brake hard but again don't fully stop and then cruise for 5 mins to let the brakes cool and you're done.