Whilst it is recommended that pads are inspected after bedding, time may not allow this.
There should be evidence of contact over the full pad area, but without glazing. On completion of the trial applications, return to a service point and let the pads cool and then inspect the surface of the brake pads from the two wheels that have been working the hardest. To shorten the procedure applications can be made along the straights as well as at corners. Perform at least 15 trial brake applications, initially with reduced pressures (around 50% of the normal that might be used for that same brake application were it to occur under race conditions) building up to full decelerations after the 15 applications. It may be necessary to close cooling ducts during the bedding to achieve sufficiently high temperatures. Specifically for DS1.11, DS3.12 and DSUNO temperatures should arrive at between 500☌ and 700☌ (as an indication: green thermal paint applied to discs should completely change and from half to all of the orange paint should change.) Pads smoking during the cool-down is not a cause for concern. Ideally the pads will arrive at temperatures in excess of 500☌ during the bedding. In these thermally treated compounds, bedding is required only as mechanical mating of pad and disc. The number of applications may also be reduced. In these cases the same general procedure is to be applied as below but arriving at the 500☌ target temperature is not critical.
Note that those pads whose part number includes the suffix WB, ZB or GB have undergone an intense thermal treatment up to full bedding temperatures during their production.
But if time does not allow, they can be used immediately though less product life, possibly 10%, should be expected. It is important that the pads are allowed to cool between the bedding and racing. This is done by a series of applications upto race speeds, but in which lighter braking pressures are used (i.e. The aim of bedding is to bring the pads to full race temperatures, but gradually (too quickly results in glazing).