Hey guys!
Topic says it all, I have a couple of questions regarding the break-in period for the car and brake bedding.
I remember reading a thread here not too long ago about breaking-in the car, I haven't been able to find that thread again through searching, but I remember someone saying that varying the speed of the car was very important and that we shouldn't cruise at a single speed.
Is it really so much the constant speed that's the problem, or is it the engine revving at a constant rpm the bad part? How should I be driving it?
With regards to brake bedding, it's pretty hard to find open road like this to do it, unless it's on the 407 toll route we have that crosses the northern part of Toronto, and I'd have to do it pretty much in the middle of the night.
How much more effective would the brakes be after I bed them? It seems like an extremely tedious process, and especially with our stupid 'racing' and 'stunt driving' laws, bedding the brakes on the freeway could spell a 7-day license suspension and 7-week impounding of the car if the cops pull me over and consider the bedding in of the brakes as 'stunt driving', since you're doing 60-10mph stops on the freeway, and doing it eight times or so.
So would the trade off of bedding the brakes be worth it? How many more miles am I going to get out of the rotors and pads? And is the stopping performance really going to improve substantially? It's not like the brakes on the IS F are weak, all the reviews I've read on the car, everyone praises the brakes and how amazing they are. So how much more amazing could it get?
Sorry for the long-winded post, I don't have an F yet, but I'm just really curious on these two topics!
Thanks!
- Dixon
Topic says it all, I have a couple of questions regarding the break-in period for the car and brake bedding.
I remember reading a thread here not too long ago about breaking-in the car, I haven't been able to find that thread again through searching, but I remember someone saying that varying the speed of the car was very important and that we shouldn't cruise at a single speed.
Is it really so much the constant speed that's the problem, or is it the engine revving at a constant rpm the bad part? How should I be driving it?
With regards to brake bedding, it's pretty hard to find open road like this to do it, unless it's on the 407 toll route we have that crosses the northern part of Toronto, and I'd have to do it pretty much in the middle of the night.
How much more effective would the brakes be after I bed them? It seems like an extremely tedious process, and especially with our stupid 'racing' and 'stunt driving' laws, bedding the brakes on the freeway could spell a 7-day license suspension and 7-week impounding of the car if the cops pull me over and consider the bedding in of the brakes as 'stunt driving', since you're doing 60-10mph stops on the freeway, and doing it eight times or so.
So would the trade off of bedding the brakes be worth it? How many more miles am I going to get out of the rotors and pads? And is the stopping performance really going to improve substantially? It's not like the brakes on the IS F are weak, all the reviews I've read on the car, everyone praises the brakes and how amazing they are. So how much more amazing could it get?
Sorry for the long-winded post, I don't have an F yet, but I'm just really curious on these two topics!
Thanks!
- Dixon