I install a lot of these pads and never had the problems you had.
I don't bother burnishing pads anymore, i just drive them easy for the first couple of hundred miles and they stop great. I think you may have glazed them in the beginning and it took some time to get through the hard glaze.
Pad compounds and rotor combination vary so much that IMO there cannot be a simple one size fits all bed in procedure.
I would guess your brake rotor combo possibly wasn't suited to the instructions and would probably have worked better from the start if you drove it normally.
From a discussion about BMW instructions
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The instructions that come with the BMW pads strongly advise against aggressive braking or "dragging" the brakes to speed up the bedding process for the first 125 miles. So, contrary to all that you've heard, you don't do anything special to bed in BMW OE brake pads. Just take off slowly, test the brakes to make sure the car will stop, and then go for a normal drive at reasonable (residential) speeds, using the brakes only as required, letting them cool down between uses. The instructions also point out that braking performance will be lower than normal until the pads are fully seasoned
My Honda CBR1100XX factory manual states new pads should be driven at normal speeds and avoid hard braking for 200KM.
Those instructions are for a power bike that needs lots of stopping power. Obviously they don't feel there is a need for burnishing or bedding.
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I don't bother burnishing pads anymore, i just drive them easy for the first couple of hundred miles and they stop great. I think you may have glazed them in the beginning and it took some time to get through the hard glaze.
Pad compounds and rotor combination vary so much that IMO there cannot be a simple one size fits all bed in procedure.
I would guess your brake rotor combo possibly wasn't suited to the instructions and would probably have worked better from the start if you drove it normally.
From a discussion about BMW instructions
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The instructions that come with the BMW pads strongly advise against aggressive braking or "dragging" the brakes to speed up the bedding process for the first 125 miles. So, contrary to all that you've heard, you don't do anything special to bed in BMW OE brake pads. Just take off slowly, test the brakes to make sure the car will stop, and then go for a normal drive at reasonable (residential) speeds, using the brakes only as required, letting them cool down between uses. The instructions also point out that braking performance will be lower than normal until the pads are fully seasoned
My Honda CBR1100XX factory manual states new pads should be driven at normal speeds and avoid hard braking for 200KM.
Those instructions are for a power bike that needs lots of stopping power. Obviously they don't feel there is a need for burnishing or bedding.
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