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Originally Posted by Charles Bronson
1) If these are high mileage, low dust, and low wear pads, they'll have worse bite and feel than stock.
2) If you didn't clean the rotor of its rust inhibitor, the material is now in the pads and will result in terrible bite/feel until that material is burned off.
3) Did you install all the correct shims when installing the pads? If you didn't add the shims, that too will make brake pedal travel longer.
4) Bedding, bedding, bedding. I can't stress this enough. Soft, spongy, brake feel after a pad change is normal, especially if you did both pads and rotors. A drive around the block isn't going to make that feel go away. YOU MUST get the pads and rotors hot to properly bed them in and make them come to life.
When a car is made, it is immediately taken out and drive a couple miles to bed the brakes as well as make sure everything works ok. When a shop does your brakes, they do the same because people would crap their pants if they felt how bad braking is after a pad/rotor change. It really doesn't take much to bed pads/rotors and wake them up.
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They are their off-road brake setup that has superior braking from what I've found and people who I know running them have told me.
I did use brake cleaner to get rid of the film put over the rotors. Had to clean them each for a couple of minutes to get it all off.
Installed the factory Toyota shims, new ones, with the brakes. They said they didn't need them, but if I wanted to install them it would be more than fine.
Good to know. If it isn't air in the lines, perhaps it is indeed the bedding in required. I've only driven it around the block twice. Hated how it felt, but perhaps it just needs to get them in.
