AzadA8

my brake sensor light came on...so i am looking on ecstuning right now. i dont know what pads to buy....i kind of want to stick with oem. and i really dont want to go to the dealer. what do you guys put on?

ricoblanco

The front pads anyway. Still waiting for the new ones. Sent me the right box, wrong (cheaper) product inside. :-(

TOMAS7

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ricoblanco

Oooh, or you could find a kid at the donut shop who will sell you some hot ones! LOL

tehA8PIMP

Don't start any fights now

Brians garage gets cross drilled oem style rotors from WorldPak distributers locally. Pagid pads as well.

AzadA8

oh ya? Mo is brians garage expensive?? because i need to get it done asap

Terrybill

Or not. Had an occasional clunk last week on brake application. Sometimes forward sometimes back. Took the front wheel off to check for loose stuff. First look at the linings showed what appeared to be plenty of (OK, enough) pad left but second look wasn't quite right. Then looked from the other side and saw that half of the pad was gone and what was clunking was the other half travelling from one end to the other. My gratitude to the engineers for building it in such a way that the pieces didn't just leave.

Front pads on left were completely disconnected from the metal with plenty of rust indicating it had been that way for awhile. Right side was half disconnected. Rears were worn and ready for replacement but no sign of being ready to depart the backing plate.

I'm not going to blame the pad as my situation is probably more of the cause. I only drive the car in the winter. In the summer it seldom gets out but when it does it usually gets washed in the garage and then sits where it was washed until a month or two later when I drive it. In retrospect the brakes are getting drowned without being driven and then sit and rust. Add that to the fact that often, when I do finally take it out, the pads are welded to the discs and it takes a clunk to get her rolling. I'm asking a lot from whatever binds the lining to the plate.

I guess the take-away is drive the car and warm up the brakes after it gets washed. That takes some of the advantage away of being able to wash it inside the garage on a rainy day when you know it won't be going out for awhile. I got a whole different set of problems.

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tehA8PIMP

just hope that your rear calipers arent seized like mine were.. parts are not available in the US!!! wtf

Just be good to them, and they will be nice to you. And dont try to tell them how to do their job, that will equal a quick fail for you. I like the soup **** mentality