07-17-2007, 10:06 PM
Andy Wrote:That's one of the functions in addition to the ones I stated but there isn't a significant difference between OEM street pad and a Bendix/Wagner/Akebono street pad that you buy from Autozone/Advance/Olympus. None. They're made to OEM spec. So that whole, if you buy OEM, you don't have to bed in pads sounds like koolaid talk to me.
If you just CHANGE pads not change BRANDS or types you do not have to bed in pads to the rotors again. This is one big reason why I suggest everyone get a set of 'street' rotors/pads and 'track' rotors/pads. Once you bed in the street pads on those rotors you don't have to do it again, even if you get new 'street' pads of the same type. I would go through a set of rotors per year and about 4 sets of pads. I'd bed in the rotors once a season.