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When newly installed brake pads reach high temperatures they can sometimes “outgas” various resins and chemicals that redeposit themselves on the surface of the brake pad.  This decreases the coefficient of friction and results in a decrease of brake power.  However hard the brakes are worked they will not generate the normal amount of power.  This is also described as when pads “glaze” over.

It is a known in the friction industry, specifically when dealing with brake pads / linings, that the newly installed brake pads need to be bedded in properly before being used in full service.

Although often neglected and not explained well to the user, burnishing, bedding-in or conditioning of brake pads is critical to initial performance. Lack of burnishing or bedding-in can often cause not only the product to fail, but can damage the user’s perception of a brand. It is important to acknowledge that all brake pads, regardless of brand or manufacturer, to a greater or lesser degree, needs to be bedded in before full service. Improper bedding-in or conditioning leads to a phenomenon called green fade.

Green Fade is a term used to describe a condition where the brake lining fails to perform after a series of heavy-duty brake applications soon after installation and where proper bedding-in of the brake linings has been ignored. Another way to describe green fade would be to state that in the event of a rapid rise in braking temperature a rapid decrease of breaking force (friction) is experienced.

The use of SG 62 allows friction material to bed in immediately and does away with expensive & time consuming scorching process. SG62 will improve the initial braking performance (friction coefficient) by 15% to 25%.