# Breaking in brake pads

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853 "2007-09-19T13:38:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![calumet79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@calumet79](https://community.cartalk.com/u/calumet79)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853/1 "2007-09-19T13:38:21Z")

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What is and how do you break in brake pads?

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**Author:** ![SteveF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stevef/32/2_2.png) [@SteveF](https://community.cartalk.com/u/SteveF)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853/2 "2007-09-19T14:15:59Z")

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This link will tell you a lot more than you really need to know about breaking in new brake pads:

[http://www.cadillacfaq.com/faq/answers/bedbrakes.html](http://www.cadillacfaq.com/faq/answers/bedbrakes.html)

For the record, I’ve never taken this aspect too seriously. I simply drive home from the shop in normal fashion. It works for me.

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**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853/3 "2007-09-19T14:19:57Z")

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> For the record, I’ve never taken this aspect too seriously. I simply drive home from the shop in normal fashion. It works for me.

Same here, I just drive normally with the new pads and/or rotors and they seem to feel fine.

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**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/breaking-in-brake-pads/4853/4 "2007-09-19T15:23:37Z")

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Normal driving is the way to break in brake pads. In other words, it’s not really necessary to break them in, otherwise all new cars would come with an elaborate procedure to accomplish proper brake pad break in, and they don’t.