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Brake pads STOPTECH or Mintex
I'm extremely impressed with their Sport pads, when compared to their closest Hawk competitor, HPS. I ran Hawks for quite a while and they were ridiculously loud. The Sports give me similar bite, maybe a tad more, but no squeal whatsoever. These were on a Focus RS that I used for DD/autocross.
Pros: similar bite, no squeal
Cons: ridiculously loud
Vehicle:
Ford Focus
Centric Premium Rotors front and rear: left as is Stoptech Street Pads: left as is
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Just did all 4 of my rotors and pads(rear pads were gone no warning and destroyed a rotor)
Went centric premium rotors all around, they’re nice and painted black on the outer surfaces
Stoptech sport pads all around, quite abit of bite I’ve been able to drive them in pretty cold temps and rain now with no issue
Pros: good bite, cold temp performance
Cons: destroyed rotor
Vehicle:
Subaru
Stoptech front slotted rotors (upgraded to 340mm) & rear, Street brake pads & stainless steel braided lines
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
I've got a set of Mintex ones, reasonably cheap and work well for the street.
Pros: reasonably cheap, work well
Vehicle:
Mazda 5
I got rid of my ceramic set due to noise and squealing so just wanted to throw that in there to consider. I drive the car mostly on the weekends so surface rust, cold rotors and the dust build up were the main cause. After 5-10 minutes of driving no problems with noise - but it was annoying reversing out of the garage with high pitched squeal. I switched to StopTech Axle Pack - Street and those have been quiet and low dust without breaking the bank.
Pros: quiet, low dust
Mintex is a step below the OEM Jurid/ATE/TRW pads in terms of friction coefficient. Mintex is an upgrade when it comes to dust. Right now, running Akebono Euro Ceramics... I won't come to my verdict until winter.
Pros: less dust
Cons: lower friction coefficient
replaced calipers with OE ones again, uprated discs with mintex pads. worked hundreds for bout 500miles and now its playing up again like before.
Pros: worked for 500 miles
Cons: playing up again
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 804 km
I had a set of Mintex Red Boxes on my '98 GTI-VR6. Other than producing less dust (or a less-visible dust), I thought they were garbage. The stock pads stopped and felt better.
Pros: less dust
Cons: garbage, felt worse
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
mintex reds are WORSE than stock in my opinion....i bought some, and got ride of em a few months later
Cons: worse than stock
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