Bedding inside your car helps give your car that snug, secure fit no matter what kind of driving you’re doing. Even if you have a hard top on your car, it still helps with getting into and out of the car. When you are driving, anything that can go in, comes out. If your bedding isn’t installed properly, it can make your entire car feel like it has more seams then it should. This seam stress can cause problems like slipping and sliding along the road.
Whether you have new brakes, new pads, or both; it is beneficial to bed your car with new bedding for safety reasons. Bedding inside your car helps to bed your new wheels, thus making them more comfortable and able to stop easier. Bedding inside your vehicle helps to transfer an evenly matched layer of new brake rotors onto your rotors to help improve braking performance and smoother overall brake operation.
The easiest way to determine if you need new bedding is to look at the size of your wheels. If you see a lot of small gaps between the pad material and the tire, this means that the bedding isn’t matching the tire and the wheels. You will also notice that there is a lot of “junk” on your rotors. This means that your bedding is too thick or too thin, and you need to go back and replace the entire kit with a new set of pads and bedding.