colin_koehler
Great SCOTT!
I've been running the Cobalt XR1's for a long time as they are my version of a "miracle pad". Smooth sexy braking, and they go deep every corner of every lap without giving up. Best part, just put them on and go. Bedding in brakes is completely foreign to me. However, everyone says that the ST43 wears like IRON and works like I want so I gave them a shot.
I know there's lots of people in our Conference running the Raybestos ST43 pads. After trying them for the first time in Portland I came away from the weekend swearing I would never run these god awful pads again.
Under hard braking they tugged the car left or right making deep/threshold braking very spooky and the worst part, they tried to shake my car to pieces. No, I do not have any bad ball joints, tie rods or "other". These were new pads and new rotors.
Now, I'm revisiting my research and finding out that there's others out there who had the same experience but have overcome it by bedding these pads. However, these pads need a lot of heat to bed and on our little cars with our brake ducts that's hard to accomplish at some place other than Mission.
Anyone else have any feedback on ST43's with uneven transfer layer and a necessity to bed them in? I'm willing to give them another shot if I can make them work but if not, they're going in the spares bin, never to be purchased again.
I know there's lots of people in our Conference running the Raybestos ST43 pads. After trying them for the first time in Portland I came away from the weekend swearing I would never run these god awful pads again.
Under hard braking they tugged the car left or right making deep/threshold braking very spooky and the worst part, they tried to shake my car to pieces. No, I do not have any bad ball joints, tie rods or "other". These were new pads and new rotors.
Now, I'm revisiting my research and finding out that there's others out there who had the same experience but have overcome it by bedding these pads. However, these pads need a lot of heat to bed and on our little cars with our brake ducts that's hard to accomplish at some place other than Mission.
Anyone else have any feedback on ST43's with uneven transfer layer and a necessity to bed them in? I'm willing to give them another shot if I can make them work but if not, they're going in the spares bin, never to be purchased again.