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Re-Bed Your Brakes - Easy - Stops Shudder


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Ok, I had lots of shudder early on with my FG.

AFM pads and RDA slotted discs seemed to fix it.

I am sure it was the original pads that were depositing crap on the rotors.

it also started to happen again on my latest set of afm and rda's on the front - maybe I didnt bed them in proberly to start with.

They were getting what looked like hot spots all over them and was "rumbleing when medium braking"

anyway - following interweb instructions I did 5-6 stops from 80-100kmph using about 80% braking force.

no more spots and no more noise - good as gold!!! from my research, if I didnt do this, it could have got to a stage where I couldnt have fixed them - if left to long.

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so what your saying is, when fitting these new rotors and pads jump on the brakes hard to bed them in?

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yeh that is how you bed brakes in properly. ride them like crazy. youll know when theyre bedded in as the pedal feel changes.

sometimes "re bedding" does help with shudder if its not too bad. it can also help to eliminate squeel. if that doesnt work remove the pads and rough them up on concrete. then re bed them. however if the rotors are warped this wont do anything. it really depends on how bad the shudder is.

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yeah QFM A1RM - must have been drinknig that night.

from my research (I did a lot - my shudder was bad) you need to do the 80% brake from about 80kmh (a bit faster if you have hard pads) - 6 times - and have a minute or 2 between each and never totally stop.

I also found out and believed to be true, never rough up a pad or rotor with sand paper or concrete and never drag a brake peddle to bed it in.

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ive rouhended up pads and rotors with sand paper/concrete heaps of times and never had a problem. im aware what you saying though but as I said never had any problems before, it has help allot

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