Brake pads

Obsedian

Obsedian

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FX37
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Ray
Hi all, my Fx37 is due for brakes and I was wondering what is an overall good pad brand for my vehicle, low brake dust and good efficiency!

I appreciate your feedback
Obsedian


Obsedian
 
Thank you very much for your response, just checked its availability and it seems like it is not available for my vehicle currently, I will keep looking unless that you have a link to a good source [emoji2]


Obsedian
 
Based on my experience with my old Audi, I personally love plain OEM or aftermarket quality rotors for maximum surface contact avoiding fancy drilled/slotted brands for show only... especially if it is your daily commute car. As far as break pads, my favorite brand is Akebono ceramic pads which incidentally are the infiniti supplier :). Akebono generate almost no dust brake, are very effective and zero noise something that is very annoying on so called (hi end performance pads)...like Hawks HPS tend to squeal especially when cold besides they are really an overkill if you ask me
 
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Akebono Pro Act ceramic pads all the way.


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Thanks y'all for the feedback, it definitely support what I was researching and I agree that plain OEM is the way to go, just never used this brand before. Just on a side note they do come with "Shims" which help reducing the squealing.


Obsedian
 
Hmm I am due for a brake pad change as well.. I had EBC green stuff with drilled and slotted. After one year, my pads are gone in the back. With only 40% in the front left. I wonder if I can mix and match the rotors with other brand pads??

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I'm using Akebono pads for both front and rear and it has minimal brake dust accumulation. No squeaks or squeals and it bites hard
 
You can mix and match. I'm running EBC green in the rear with OEM in front. I've mixed and matched on the FX a lot since the pads never wear out at the same time, the rears always go first.
 
Wonder why your rear always go first. In my experience, the front always goes first no matter if its AWD or FWD. No experience with RWD though.
 
Always thought it was because the rear pads engage first to minimize brake dive. Had it happen on my former Lexus IS350 as well. On previous cars, it was always front pads first since there wasn't any "fancy" technology to engage rear brakes first.
 
Yeah your front pads should go first since they do most of the work

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I understand the physics of braking and the front does most of the work, hence front brakes are typically larger. But for my specific driving conditions on my FX and old Lexus, the rears would go first. Maybe it's because I live in the city and 90% of my drive time is in stop and go traffic or I'm riding the brakes. The rear brakes may be constantly engaged while someone who drives more on the highway and uses their brakes less doesn't have that problem. Or maybe it's my driving style coupled with the VDC which uses the brakes as well. On my BMW, the DSC system engages the brakes as a sort of E-diff instead of a real LSD. Haven't had to replace them yet, but I can see my rear brake pads are wearing more than the front (so that's 3 cars).

Who knows why. As I said earlier on my previous cars which were before the era of electronic traction control and ABS, the fronts always wore out first. Just not the case with my current cars.
 
I haven't needed to change my brakes for my FX yet, but I've used Wagner ThermoQuiet on my previous 2 vehicles and never had an issue. I'm due for brakes late this summer so I'll go between either Wagner or Akebono.
 
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My rears would wear more, but since the bigger package out front, & a change in compounds, they're wearing about the same. & actually not as muck.
Project Mu up front, Hawk 5.0s at the rear
 
shadow191 said:
I understand the physics of braking and the front does most of the work, hence front brakes are typically larger. But for my specific driving conditions on my FX and old Lexus, the rears would go first. Maybe it's because I live in the city and 90% of my drive time is in stop and go traffic or I'm riding the brakes. The rear brakes may be constantly engaged while someone who drives more on the highway and uses their brakes less doesn't have that problem. Or maybe it's my driving style coupled with the VDC which uses the brakes as well. On my BMW, the DSC system engages the brakes as a sort of E-diff instead of a real LSD. Haven't had to replace them yet, but I can see my rear brake pads are wearing more than the front (so that's 3 cars).

Who knows why. As I said earlier on my previous cars which were before the era of electronic traction control and ABS, the fronts always wore out first. Just not the case with my current cars.
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You're absolutely correct about that, I had the same thing with my previous 335i, rear brakes goes out first because the newer car models generally are controlled by the ecu, and they made the rear brakes to be used for slowing down the vehicle and to prevent nose diving on harder braking, also it had been used to compensate for lost traction and tailing off the rear end in order to keep you in control.

That in addition to the fact that they are significantly smaller in size than the front ones

In the older vehicle models generally the front pads will go out first, simply because of their design, the master cylinder which was really responsible for distributing the braking force.

Master cylinder was two stage piston, the first piston will apply the brake force to the front wheels when slowing the vehicle down, the rear brakes will not start to receive any power up until the first piston go through its full stroke (with harder braking) and lock up to the second piston and start to physically push it in order to apply braking force on the rear wheels, and that is the reason why front pads will always go out first.

Please note that this old system was not used on all manufacturers, like for instance VW Beetle (1303S) will use a master cylinder that will distribute the braking force evenly and at the same time (single piston MC)

Obsedian
 
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