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Originally Posted by motosolo

I just installed Hawk HP+ pads for street/autocross use and did the recommended bed-in. Wow are these noisy! I sound like a garbage truck. Anyone else run these on the street? Will that brake quiet stuff help any? I may need to start swapping pads for events.

I put the combo of Powerslots & Hawk hp on a Cooper s. Both are hard & take a long time to bed-in. Weeks! So throwing on a set of HP+ for the ocassional auto-x Thats 0 bed-in. The contour of the pad isn't going to mate to the<(since the last auto-x)> rotors contour. Take a sharpie to the face of the pads before the auto-x & observe after. Swapping rotors & pads as a unit per wheel solves the garbage truck syndrome because the pads now bite the whole rotor. Now you have real brakes that don't fade as soon.

	spider Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston,Tx.	Quote: Originally Posted by motosolo I just installed Hawk HP+ pads for street/autocross use and did the recommended bed-in. Wow are these noisy! I sound like a garbage truck. Anyone else run these on the street? Will that brake quiet stuff help any? I may need to start swapping pads for events. I put the combo of Powerslots & Hawk hp on a Cooper s. Both are hard & take a long time to bed-in. Weeks! So throwing on a set of HP+ for the ocassional auto-x Thats 0 bed-in. The contour of the pad isn't going to mate to the<(since the last auto-x)> rotors contour. Take a sharpie to the face of the pads before the auto-x & observe after. Swapping rotors & pads as a unit per wheel solves the garbage truck syndrome because the pads now bite the whole rotor. Now you have real brakes that don't fade as soon.