"Do I need to bed in new brakes on my E36?" — yes, and it matters more than people think. New pads and discs need a proper bed-in to lay an even transfer layer of pad material onto the rotor. Skip it and you invite judder, squeal and poor bite; the pulsing people blame on "warped rotors" is very often a botched or skipped bed-in (Brake Judder Shimmy). It takes ten minutes after a pad/disc job
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