“Bedding in “ new brakes.

[Noyzboy]

Can you share your opinions on "bedding in “ new OEM brake pads.
It’s a long time ago since my (not Clio V6) car had new pads installed, but now I have new OEM road pads
The car is road use only.
Way back when, before all coppers were younger than me, I think the advice was to bed brakes in
There are various techniques published in the interweb for this.
Such as
https://www.autozone.com/diy/brakes/bedding-brakes

Is this all out of date.
The average driver has never heard of “Bedding in “ brakes.
Surely the suppliers of OEM brake pads will now have formulated pads that don’t need “bedding in”
So...do modern OEM pads need bedding in at all ??

Opinions please

 

[Kett]

I’ve always thought that there would inevitably be a small degree of inaccuracy (1-2’) between the pad surface and the disc face. It would therefore take around 1k miles to delaminate the pad surface and to score the disc surface to achieve correct alignment.

I didn’t think it was anything other than that…

 

[rustedandrotten]

Several manufacturers put a bedding in compound on the surface of new pads to abrade the discs to speed up bedding in and deglazing discs

 

[DaveL485]

For a normal road car? For new discs and pads, not really, just drive it.

For new pads, but not discs, where the disc surface will be out of whack with the new, flat, pad, careful braking for the first couple of hundred miles ad the pad shapes to the disc surface.