Very informative article on rotor wear, proper pads, bedding, etc.

I will try this procedure pretty soon to see if it works for me.

And now I just read this on another forum:

"Ok this is what I read, someone else linked it from a forum.
It is kind of long and as with all internet material I looked up other opinions and info, but in my case it saved me a lot of time and money.

I found two bedding procedures that people seem to agree with.

Get up to 100kph brake pretty hard to 60kph, repeat about 5 times.
Drive for a while to cool the brakes down.
Don't stop during this time.

The second one is to get up to 80kph and brake lightly down to 10kph, repeat 5 times.
Drive for a while to cool brakes down.
Don't stop during the procedure.

The pulsing on our cx-9 was really bad.
Hard braking at hwy speed would shake the whole vehicle.
I was looking up warped rotors and warranty experiences.
I did the two bedding procedures about a week apart and I went from hard pulsing to very light pulsing to no pulsing.
Now a couple months later still no pulsing. "
 
Get up to 100kph brake pretty hard to 60kph, repeat about 5 times.
Drive for a while to cool the brakes down.
Don't stop during this time.

The second one is to get up to 80kph and brake lightly down to 10kph, repeat 5 times.
Drive for a while to cool brakes down.
Don't stop during the procedure.

The procedures you mentioned are almost exactly what I do everyday here in Bay Area.
It is called "Traffic on Highways".
No wonder I have no brake vibration issue (OE brake rotors and pads at 40K miles).

Thanks for the link to a great article.
 
My old man moved us out of Cali when I was a kid, because it was taking him 3-4 hours to get from Orangevale to San Fran Airport; legendary traffic there in the left coast.
 

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