Pick some pads for me please
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Actually I don't really care about anyone respecting me. Personally, I like to hear pleasant noises when I drive like "vroom vroom". And "whirrr" and "pshh" and "woo woo woo wooo".
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For cheap, just swap them in.
If you want slightly better braking and better pad life, have the rotors turned, but then you couldn't (shouldn't) use the HP+s again.
To do this "right", label the rotors and pads with a sharpie for left/right, and keep the current rotors with the HP+s, and get new rotors for the HT-10s.
If you want slightly better braking and better pad life, have the rotors turned, but then you couldn't (shouldn't) use the HP+s again.
To do this "right", label the rotors and pads with a sharpie for left/right, and keep the current rotors with the HP+s, and get new rotors for the HT-10s.
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My theory is that not all pads have uniform stiffness across their entire surface. As you use the brakes, the rotor eats into the softer stuff, and the hard parts of the pad eat into the rotor. This makes your rotor into some what of a LP, with a bunch of different grooves.
New pads will ride on top of the rotor grooves, reducing a lot of the surface area that the pads have to grip.
At least that's how I've always imagined it in my head.
New pads will ride on top of the rotor grooves, reducing a lot of the surface area that the pads have to grip.
At least that's how I've always imagined it in my head.
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