TLDR: Went to a trackday months ago, brakes feel soft ever since. What to do?
Early summer, I went to a track day on Hockenheimring right after my first year service appointment. The car felt great and I pushed it as much as I could. Hockenheimring has quite a lot of heavy braking spots and admittedly I didn't bother with pushing one lap and cooling down the next lap. While I was on track I didn't notice much brake fade during most of the 4 sessions of 15-20 minutes of driving. On the way back on Autobahn, I noticed straight away how soft the brakes felt. I even had a scary moment where I had to brake from 200+kmh on the Autobahn and car braked much softer than I am used to, I took it easy afterwards.
I thought it would get better after everything settles down and frankly I couldn't drive the car much this summer but whenever I enjoy it on a backroad I can clearly notice how smooth the brakes feel. The bite feels much more gradual and less "bitey" than it was before the trackday. It still stops, probably as well as it ever did but I don't have the same confidence I had before the track day and I simply prefer a bitey brake feel I guess.
I checked on the pads and they seem to have some life left still. I am at 13k kms, at most 3k of it was spirited driving.
I read a similar post on the other GRY forum and people suggest I cooked the brake fluid and need to adjust/flush it. What is the most cost effective way to solve this and restore the original feel? Normally I am okay with investing in the brakes but I am being let go on the 15th so I would like to spare some $.
Any tips appreciated, thank you!
Early summer, I went to a track day on Hockenheimring right after my first year service appointment. The car felt great and I pushed it as much as I could. Hockenheimring has quite a lot of heavy braking spots and admittedly I didn't bother with pushing one lap and cooling down the next lap. While I was on track I didn't notice much brake fade during most of the 4 sessions of 15-20 minutes of driving. On the way back on Autobahn, I noticed straight away how soft the brakes felt. I even had a scary moment where I had to brake from 200+kmh on the Autobahn and car braked much softer than I am used to, I took it easy afterwards.
I thought it would get better after everything settles down and frankly I couldn't drive the car much this summer but whenever I enjoy it on a backroad I can clearly notice how smooth the brakes feel. The bite feels much more gradual and less "bitey" than it was before the trackday. It still stops, probably as well as it ever did but I don't have the same confidence I had before the track day and I simply prefer a bitey brake feel I guess.
I checked on the pads and they seem to have some life left still. I am at 13k kms, at most 3k of it was spirited driving.
I read a similar post on the other GRY forum and people suggest I cooked the brake fluid and need to adjust/flush it. What is the most cost effective way to solve this and restore the original feel? Normally I am okay with investing in the brakes but I am being let go on the 15th so I would like to spare some $.
Any tips appreciated, thank you!
. Honestly, sometimes it happens even with Carbotech 8XP but then I just drive and brake more agressively and it goes away
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