After purchasing a set of Carbotech XP-8 brake pads for the VR-4 sometime in the middle of last year, I finally got round to looking at fitting them yesterday.

Pulled the wheels off, and stuck the pads in, to find that they are very silver, and it made my calipers/carriers look quite bad...

So, off down to Halfords, to grab a tin of silver hammerite!






I then went out a bit later, to follow the bedding in instructions that came with the pad.

4 stops from 70-10, with 30 seconds between each, then 4 stops from "70+"-10, with a minute between each.

This was the result of that....




Whoops!

It also kind of made a bit of a mess of the Hammerite, too, so I might need to re-do that now!

The brakes are MUCH better now, though! It now stops just as well as it goes!

I've never seen my discs glow like that a may try that at night and get a photo especially after hard braking

garry u have just invented the first random mod ever
but yet sign me up for a pair of glo in the dark disks please lmao!!!

get ya selfs a set of carbotech pads! then "bed them in" = glow in the dark disks!

haha nice pic man, i might try that myself. you want heat resistant paint really. you can buy kits or just a tin of heat resistant paint off ebay and it will last.

either that or buy heat resistant paint from dulux

A second coat of Hammerite has done the job

A few months on, and the brakes are still phenomenal!