Alien-83

I bin wondering is it possible to adjust the brake on the 500, like
front 80% back 20% is it possible, when i press the brake its it 50/50 !

Yidney

How did you determine it's 50/50?

Alien-83

i have no idea just thinking !

Yidney

I think the answer to your question is no. MB designs the brakes to work a certain way. I think all cars are biased towards the front - thus the larger pads and discs and multiple piston calipers.

Alien-83

So when you do burnouts whats happening to the rear brakes holding the gas and brake ! the has to be away to adjust it when i took the car to Mercedes dealer for esp computer replacement like couple months ago the adjusted the brakes!

sailorben

As part of our basic MOT annual testing on cars over 3 years of age, their brakes get checked for differences across the axles. Mine aren't perfect. They were almost 15% different on the one axle, which would have been a fail, but after replacing a calipers, they're now within 7% the same.


I know there are some aftermarket adjusters you can add onto a system to adjust balance, but I don't know whether they'd fit on the clk. Neither would I know why you'd want to attempt to mess with one of the most important safety features on the car, even if it is a project. Especially without having the balance tested already...

sailorben

Yeah well the rear brakes do have less hold on the wheels, hence you can overcome the bite. Not hard with all the torque our cars produce however.

91ser

Whats happening when you do a burnout? Um......well the rear brakes get hot. Lol.

What you are looking for is called a "line lock". That being said, it will probably be more expensive to buy it and install it vs the "cost" of just replacing the rear pads once you burn them out.

How often are you doing burnouts? Yikes, your tire cost must be insane.

And the stock bias is usually around 65% front, 35% back for the braking forces. Im not sure if thats what the clk is, but itll be close, give or take.

Alien-83

never done a burnout just asking

Rudeney

Are you talking about actual brake regulation, or ESP? If you really want to do a burnout, you need to disable ESP totally via "dyno mode" (search to forum or the the web for how to enter the hidden menu on the MFD to enable this).

Khan 55

I've done this stupid thing once before in my car. I went a bit crazy that night being winter time. None the less due to the rear brakes getting hot, the car experienced slight issues braking after a while and an ESP error code came up. After replacing tires couple months later, I realised that spinning tires aren't worth it unless your wallet is sitting pretty enough for all sorts of damage repairs apart from new tires.