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Bedding In Rear Brake Pads

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SPGTi

To try and help my crappy handbrake turns I have just fitted some Pagid Blue pads on the rear. Do I need to do anything special to bed them in ? I just don't fancy going up and down the street throwing the handbrake on to get them nice and hot, normal braking will take forever to get them hot.

 

Steve

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Rob Thomson

Haven't you invested in a nice bias valve yet, Steve?

 

If you have you should be able to get them nice and hot just by 'normal' braking. If you haven't, what's wrong with driving with gentle pressure applied to the handbrake?

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Tom Fenton

Others may disagree, but I've always found the handbrake mechanism on the Bendix rear calipers to be pretty poor no matter what is done with it.

The only reliable way to be able to have a decent handbrake on a 205 is to either use the 1600 drums, or fit a hydraulic handbrake to lock them up hydraulically.

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SPGTi

Yes Rob, I have a bias valve but in all honesty I keep it "open" anyway. I suppose a few tweaks of the handbrake every now and again with enthusiastic normal braking should get them hot.

 

Tom, I do have a hydraulic handbrake, an add on of the std mechanism as the PTS kit, which I think I will change for a vertical one after Xmas.

 

It was just after CraigB's thread about how using good pads on the rear changed the handbrake. I had the chance of some Pagid Blue at a price I couldn't refuse (free) so just wondered about bedding the in because with front pads I like to get them smoking.

 

Steve

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Craigb

I did mine by dragging the handbrake .

 

I didn't fancy having all the bias to the back and jumping on them . It get quite hairy that way .

 

Then the key is to set the bias so that the rears are doing something , to keep a level of heat in them ..

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Rob Thomson

Yep, the key to getting a disc-braked car to handbrake well is keeping the rears warm. My old 309 used to twirl perfectly all night long, but only once the bias valve was fitted and left 'open', i.e. maximum rear braking; which - in the 309 - was the perfect brake set-up for the lanes.

 

Steve, just drive down an A-road at 50mph with constant gentle pressure on the handbrake, for 20 seconds or so at a time. That should get plenty of heat into them without any enthusiastic braking or daft twirling antics.

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SamGTi

Hope you're ready for VERY dusty rear wheels! I have Pagid blue pads on my rears and my rear alloys get much dirtier with brake dust than my front ones (Mintex 1144's) even though the backs do much less braking. (Can anybody explain this btw?)

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SPGTi
Hope you're ready for VERY dusty rear wheels! I have Pagid blue pads on my rears and my rear alloys get much dirtier with brake dust than my front ones (Mintex 1144's) even though the backs do much less braking. (Can anybody explain this btw?)

 

i only use my car for road rallying so I am not really concerned about brake dust. Basically it gets covered in mud, then cleaned at the local hand carwash (£2.50), then put back in the garage.

 

I did an event at the weekend and I think the pads are bedded in now. Left foot braking on the mud was geting the back end sliding anyway.

 

Stev

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Craigb
i only use my car for road rallying so I am not really concerned about brake dust. Basically it gets covered in mud, then cleaned at the local hand carwash (£2.50), then put back in the garage.

 

And they still let you go back ? I wouldn't want to be in the queue after you :wub:

 

I got fed up with the comments form the local car wash's , so i invested in a power washer .

 

Pleased to hear you sorted the rears out though

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SPGTi
And they still let you go back ? I wouldn't want to be in the queue after you :wub:

 

I got fed up with the comments form the local car wash's , so i invested in a power washer .

 

They seem to like washing the 205 :lol::huh: . I usually get 2 of them doing it, neither can speak much english though. I used to powerwash the car at home but had too many complaints from the wife,

 

Steve

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