STEP 1 (INITIAL PAD SEATING)
Drive 50 to 100 miles on public road/highway normal driving to allow the pads to mate up to the disc and establish full contact followed by 6 – 8 stops from 60 mph to 20 mph at around 50% pedal pressure application with mild acceleration back up to speed between stops. After this, try and drive for 5 – 10 miles with using the brakes as minimal as possible.

STEP 2 (BEDDING / COMPOUND CURING / TRANSFER LAYER APPLICATION)
Perform another 6 – 8 stops from 60-20mph at around 70 – 80% pedal pressure application with quicker acceleration between stops but not full acceleration. After this, try and drive for again around 5 – 10 miles with using the brakes as minimal as possible. If you have to come to a dead stop during these procedures, do not sit with your foot on the brake, but use your parking brake OR let the car creep forward so that the brake pads do not get to sit on the same spot on the discs. This will help reduce the chance of any uneven deposist from the pads onto the discs.

You may feel the pedal go a little spongy, if it gets too soft abort the process and start again later. What is too soft? Too soft means that you feel that the brakes are not responding well. IF you feel the pedal starting to get softer and needing a bit more travel to apply the brakes, then only perform 1 more stop procedure (even if you have not yet reached your 6th stop) and then drive as mentioned about to let your brakes cool down.

Experienced driver – faster street bedding routine.

First, make sure you achieve the pad seating – we’re now going to bed the pads in with what we can describe as using “engine torque”.
On a safe straight road with no cars close behind or in front at approx. 40-50 mph apply the brake to 30% or so pressure whilst continuing to press the accelerator to main vehicle speed for as long as safe to do so, you will need approximately a clear quarter mile to do this so make sure you have that. This will drag the brakes, get them hot and take them past the 400-500C level required for bed in and you may even smell brake odour. You may feel the pedal go a little spongy, if it gets too soft abort the process and start again later. What is too soft? Too soft means that you feel that the brakes are not responding well.
Release the brake and coast for a mile, slowly, unless you have to make a stop.
If you have to abort the process part way through, repeat it as soon as safe to do so.
Coasting after the bed in to allow discs to cool as you should not park the vehicle with HOT brakes. So be sure you have a road where it is safe enough to do this procedure with no imminent bends or stops in front of you so you can roll for a while and allow discs to cool, but if you need the brakes USE THEM
Allow the brake to fully cool ( if possible overnight) and repeat the exact same process again.
Your pads should feel entirely different to before the process, they should feel sharp and much more responsive. This process is called eliminating “Green fade” by burning off those surface volatiles.
You will see blue marks on the discs after you stop, these will go away in a few miles.

How to check if pads have heat cured or chemically bedded – Brake bedding in causes heat and it is strongly advised to monitor this heat using heat paint TWICE during bedding. What you do is, apply the heat paints on the outer edge of the rotor, run the pads for enough stops (6 – 8 stops ) to pass the 430C temperature ( 800 F ), allow a few minutes for the system to cool and take a look at the heat paints to ensure they have passed the 430 C indicator, reapply new heat paints to a different cleaned area of the disc and drive again for 6 – 8 more hard stops which will take you past STEP 2 where temps should pass 430C (800F) again. Full cool down needed here of at least 45 to 60 minutes and if you CAN… overnight cool. You need to see the 430C heat paint go off TWICE to have completed STEP 2.