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Originally Posted by Doru
I don't think ceramic pads should be bedded. Semimetallic - yes.
I had a nasty experience with Akebono, after I bedded them - one cool morning right after bedding them, I lost TOTAL braking power. Like pushing the brake pedal as hard as I could, and it seemed like the car had the pedal just for ornament. After this incident I did a research, and it seems that ceramics should NOT be bedded. maybe they form a glazed surface when bedding that will NOT brake at all? 
These brake pads, slowly started to bite as time passed. But for about 2 weeks, it was a thrill driving in the city. |
It's always been my understanding that ALL brake pads need bedding to set pads to rotors and transfer some of the pad materal to the rotor surface (brass in the case of ceramic pads, seeing as the matrix is a ceramic/carbon/brass on these pads).