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Originally Posted by M3 Pilot
Brand new M3 will come with delivery miles on it. I would be keen to know if any of those miles include bedding in the pads. My guess is that they don't bed in the pads.
Maybe someone can chime in on this.
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They don't, but honestly for street driving it's not absolutely essential. Yes you get more stopping power if you do, but they're not exactly useless without. And even if you do bed them in, you'll have to re-bed them occasionally because most braking during regular driving is soft enough that the pads will be scraping deposits off the rotors rather than adding more, which is why I don't really bother with it anymore. I might bed in my track pads prior to a track day, but some tracks are set up so you can just use the first couple laps of your first session to do that anyway.
The far more important factor is making sure that you've scraped any existing deposits off of your rotors before switching to a different pad compound.