I did them myself for $600, Textar pads and Zimmerman rotors.
Textar
The textar pads are great for normal and slightly aggressive driving. The initial bite is great compared to ceramic pads, although they do dust a lot. To me the trade off is worth it for great pedal feel.
I always use Textar - a boggo (albeit OE) brand, and never, ever have a problem.
I just daily my 17 GTI. The stock pads and rotors finally gave up at 103k miles. I was perfectly happy with the oem brakes, but not spending $700. I went Zimmerman and Texstar pads. So far no complaints, they feel like the stock brakes when they were new.
For years I ran Pagid Black on the fronts and Pagid Yellow on the rear.
Textar makes good pads but they get brake dust everywhere. They are currently the stock ones on my 23 m40i.
Around 12k miles, the anti-rattle decal on the left front Textar pads melted and which made them rattle in the caliper over bumps. FCP Euro exchanged them for Pagid pads and no problem since. Rear Textar pads have been fine.
Well, I just put Textar pads on and am looking to swap them because they\u2019re super dusty and squeal with light pressure, so I too would love some recommendations.
I recently replaced some on a 981 with Textar and don’t recommend it. So much dust and some noise at low speed braking.
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In March 2026 on PartReview, brake pads Hella Pagid were overall better than Textar.
In March 2026 on PartReview, brake pads Hella Pagid were overall more popular than Hella Pagid.
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By number of reviews, brake pads Textar surpassed Hella Pagid:
In March 2026, according to PartReview, brake pads Hella Pagid led more car-specific ratings than Textar:
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