Brake Pads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Meant "braking"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Meant "braking"

Forgot one more thing, if you have the option of picking among multiple ceramic braking pads, if Bosch or Akebono are among them, pick one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Someone taught me this trick once, and when I told my dad about it, he said, "it's a lot cheaper to replace the brake pads than it is to replace the clutch."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Someone taught me this trick once, and when I told my dad about it, he said, "it's a lot cheaper to replace the brake pads than it is to replace the clutch."

Dad was right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Someone taught me this trick once, and when I told my dad about it, he said, "it's a lot cheaper to replace the brake pads than it is to replace the clutch."

Dad was right.

If you drive with smooth shifting and rev-matching (tap the accelerator a bit prior to downshift) this is a non-issue. If you downshift as quickly and smoothly as you upshift, then the added wear and tear on your clutch will be a statistical blip - seriously, how many times do you downshift for this reason, as opposed to normal shifting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ceramic pads will generate less dust at the cost of a sort-of weird brake feel. I put ceramic pads on my BMW and the feel totally changed but the front wheels stayed much cleaner.

Kind of depends what you're after. What kind of vehicle is it, and how do you drive it?

Car guy here, totally agree with above poster, put ceramic brake pads if you can. Cost a bit more, but will be cleaner, less dust, more quiet, overall better quality and will last longer. Labor will be bigger part of your expense picture. Say you pick the cheap brake pads, say $25 per axle, labor will be $100. Say the ceramic ones last twice as long as the cheap ones, the "cheap" option will be 2x $25 (pads) + $100 labor, total = $250. Ceramic, doing once, will be $50 + 100 = $150. Plus the convenience of not having to go to mechanic more time. Btw, you can vastly increase life of the brake pads if you have the habit of breaking slowly rather than abrupt braking. In my case, driving a manual, I use engine breaking so my brake pads last a veeery long time

Someone taught me this trick once, and when I told my dad about it, he said, "it's a lot cheaper to replace the brake pads than it is to replace the clutch."

Dad was right.

Your Dad doesn't know how to drive a standard transmission. Engine braking is routine behavior with a standard transmission. Unlike an automatic, a standard automobile doesn't coast when you let off the gas.