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Originally Posted by SirBrass
Ah. Hmm. So, basically the pads got too hot?
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Pretty much. It is also possible to have pad fade and brake fluid boiling at the same time. Another measure of what is going wrong can be how much your brakes recover afterwards. If you have a firm pedal an hour after driving on the track then you just saw pad fade. If your pedal is still spongey and having more travel then you boiled your fluid. If your brakes just don't bite as well (that is, when you have a firm pedal either because you didn't boil the fluid or you flushed it) then you glazed your pads (basically I guess you practically melted them and now they have a bad surface interfacing with the rotors).
There are alot of factors that determine the heat in any single part of your braking system so it is possible to have any one of those three issues with or without the others.
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