RE: Ask a Automotive Brake Engineer
June 9, 2015 at 7:54 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2015 at 7:57 am by Brakeman.)
(June 8, 2015 at 11:51 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: I worked for a wholesale parts distributer. Can you tell me what brand of pads you like and if cost equals performance?
Akebono brakes of course! (don't want me to get fired do you?) Akebono brake pads are good OEM quality.
I like ITT and another German make I cant think of right know. I use the brand I cant think of every day in my office, but I'm having a major senior moment right now.
Performance Friction is pretty good but they are small and very poorly run. Their quality of consistency is questionable but they produce performance pads here in the US.
Cost equals performance? .. No, not for the average user. If you live in a mountanous area or are towing anything then yes, spend the extra money. Americans don't usually prefer short stopping distances though because they don't want to be "thrown through the windshield" as opposed to European tastes. Our police pads are barely as gripping as European standard.
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