DanDglassman
Well-Known Member
A guy at work had the same thing happen. Is yours a performance pack?
He was on a slight incline at home and was messing around in the car with it running in neutral and handbrake on. He shut the car down for the night and forgot to put it in gear. Several hours later his car coasted into the neighbor's fence.
His was the PP GT. Before working for us, he was an engineer working for the brake pad company that makes pads for FORD. His car was not very old and the rear brakes were not fully bedded in. Due to this reduced friction from the incomplete bedding and the low cold bite from the performance pad, the brake as applied did not have sufficient hold strength (after cooling for the evening).
He has written FORD and is awaiting determination on coverage. He was privy to some inside information on low initial bite due to his previous employment and access to the QA data as the production engineer for the friction material. I'm not sure he will get anywhere with his claim. I suggested a NTSB complaint. If enough are received the govt will investigate.
He also believes the PP with Brembos are more likely to see this issue as the brakes are very biased to the front calipers. With less demand on the rears, the bedding time could be longer for them. I believe this guy had >1000 miles on the car and still noticed areas on the rear pads that didn't seem bedded. I usually thought pads were bedded in the first 100 miles on normal cars...
I'd suggest a little extra yank on the handbrake for those of you with PP cars early in their life cycle.
He was on a slight incline at home and was messing around in the car with it running in neutral and handbrake on. He shut the car down for the night and forgot to put it in gear. Several hours later his car coasted into the neighbor's fence.
His was the PP GT. Before working for us, he was an engineer working for the brake pad company that makes pads for FORD. His car was not very old and the rear brakes were not fully bedded in. Due to this reduced friction from the incomplete bedding and the low cold bite from the performance pad, the brake as applied did not have sufficient hold strength (after cooling for the evening).
He has written FORD and is awaiting determination on coverage. He was privy to some inside information on low initial bite due to his previous employment and access to the QA data as the production engineer for the friction material. I'm not sure he will get anywhere with his claim. I suggested a NTSB complaint. If enough are received the govt will investigate.
He also believes the PP with Brembos are more likely to see this issue as the brakes are very biased to the front calipers. With less demand on the rears, the bedding time could be longer for them. I believe this guy had >1000 miles on the car and still noticed areas on the rear pads that didn't seem bedded. I usually thought pads were bedded in the first 100 miles on normal cars...
I'd suggest a little extra yank on the handbrake for those of you with PP cars early in their life cycle.
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