Regen does not kick in for a mile or so after the car has sat for several hours, including overnight. When you leave the house in the morning do some left foot (assuming U.S. car with steering wheel on the left side) braking while you are accelerating. This will engage the brakes and clean them right up. They will also heat up pretty quickly so maybe drive a couple hundred feet with left foot braking, ease off, do it again. Then, just learn how to left foot brake as part of your normal driving - not to clean the rotors, but more to enhance the driving experience...........................Having a new cross turismo and at 600 miles now. But the PSCB is not shining like a mirror. Instead, looks like an opaque film on the disks. Is that normal? How can I get it shining like a mirror?
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Come down in reverse and you'll have the shinniest rear rotors in existence hahaMine are shiny on the front but still dull on the rear at 28000 miles.
next step is.
- Polishing the read rotors. That can be a bad idea.
- Going to the top of the mountain charge to 100% and use the brakes all the way down.
- Doing nothing and stop looking at the rear wheels.
Curious about this one…Regen does not kick in for a mile or so after the car has sat for several hours, including overnight. When you leave the house in the morning do some left foot (assuming U.S. car with steering wheel on the left side) braking while you are accelerating. This will engage the brakes and clean them right up. They will also heat up pretty quickly so maybe drive a couple hundred feet with left foot braking, ease off, do it again. Then, just learn how to left foot brake as part of your normal driving - not to clean the rotors, but more to enhance the driving experience...........................
What could possibly go wrong? Hoping I don't see a video of this on TikTok someday.Find a big parking lot or another flat big space. Reverse the car flat out and slam on the brakes a couple times. There is no Regen in reverse.
There is a post on for Forum that discuss this. From what I remember it is to 'clean' the rotors up after sitting for a period - I think maybe 6 hours or so...........from what I remember. I would guess (and it is just a guess) that since regen provides almost all of the braking for most driving the rotors build up what? A film? Dirt? I don't know, but that is what the reasoning is as I remember previous posts. I should point out that active braking is what cleans the rotors after the car has sat for a while. For me, it takes about a mile, but there are only 3 braking points in that mile. For someone else that is driving in city I would guess that it does not take a mile but something shorter as the braking points are more frequent................I think.................Curious about this one…
Is there any reason why regen doesn’t kick in for a mile (I feel a big longer though) overnight?