As I said, no other car, including my CTS-V that I raced several times has ever had a problem like this.
I'm the first to be on board with new technology (Calculators weren't invented yet when I was in high school)
I still have to wonder if the composition of these pads has something to do with this.
From what I can see (again) in the manual on pages 219-221 (under the Track Events and Competitive Driving section) (nothing at all about burnishing for normal driving)
I read this the day after I bought the car. I read the whole manual through as I did with the CTS-V as soon as I bought it. I'm pretty meticulous about things like that. My engineering lobe
My problems started long before any track event as did the poster of this thread.
All of it didn't want to copy and paste, but here's what it says on Page 220:
"New brake pads must be burnished before racing or other competitive driving."
This fall in line with my research into this when I started my thread on my rotors glazing.
The Corvette forum said the same thing about racing or track events. If you you didn't plan totrack it, no need to burnish.
All information I could find said burnishing was necessary to insure maximum performance for racing, not that it was needed to go and get milk and bread and normal everyday driving.
Truth be told, there's very few places you can perform the procedure in the book without causing traffic problems or really pissing a lot of people off you're on the road with, to my way of thinking, making it implausible for Cadillac to make this a mandatory thing in order just to make the brakes work properly for everyday driving.
I maintain what I've said on this and hope more information will become available as these cars go through their growing pains.