[Cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by raisingAnarchy

To your point, a lot of the responses on here aren't considering the brakes or tires that need to be broken in when they're brand new. I had brakes done on my car recently at the dealer, and before leaving the Foreman said to take it easy for the first 250 miles to let the pads/rotors break in and heat-cycle properly.

I understand tires need to be treated in a similar fashion, not to mention every car I've owned has some kind of engine break-in procedure in their manuals.

Though, I probably wouldn't care either if I was leasing all of my cars...

Brake pad break in is important, but differs greatly between many manufacturers and pad compounds.

More aggressive compounds actually recommend several aggressive stops from higher speed to help bed the pads in. The M sport brakes have a fairly aggressive compound, but I'm not sure what the break in is since I've never needed a set replaced.