Brake pad recommendation

[b4black]

I know, everyone hates these threads - go read the archives. I have and every time someone says something good, another says something bad about the same pads. And most threads were fairly old and part numbers don't match up anymore.

I have a 2013 MKS Ecoboost. It's a daily driver, that might see a twisty track once or twice. I plan to have the stock rotors cut, so just looking for pads. I don't need the ultimate best track pads ever, but I'm willing to pay more for quality and performance.

Thanks!

 

[SM105K]

EBC or Hawk and be done.

 

[Christian]

Back in the Lexus forums, most had great luck with Centric pads and rotors. I did too. Never tried EBC or Hawk, but I've heard good things depending on the level (EBC greenstuff, yellowstuff, redstuff etc).

 

[Eric Morris]

Do you need "better" brake pads? Is it really going to see a track, or not?

All brake pad compounds are a trade off. If it's one time a year, I'd swap the pads out for just that track day and swap them back afterwards. Running race pads on the street sucks. Running street pads on a race track sucks.

 

[b4black]

I "want" better pads.

OK, forget the track part. Both EBC and Hawk have a rainbow of offerings (literally).

Using EBC pad selector, it recommend RedStuff. Anybody here try them and recommend them?

The Hawk selector tool is useless. They pretty describe all their pads the same. Great stopping power, low dust, excellent rotor wear, etc. Seems to point towards the HPS 5.0 (red) and LTS (green).

 

[Eric Morris]

I hear what you are saying, but I'd recommend just sticking with stock type stuff. Ford, Centric, Raybestos, Wagner.

Everything more aggressive will probably dust like crazy, might eat the rotors, squeal when hot, have poor cold temp manners, something. It's all a trade off. Ford provided the best all around compound when they made the stock pads. I've always thought the brakes are quite good on my 2015. They are quiet, smooth, work well when cold and hot, and they haul the car down from speed just fine.

 

[SaveMelMac]

Akebono

 

[Zpak]

I’ve found great all around performance with the powerstop pads and rotors but life is another question. Strangely, I ate up a set of rears in 15K on my MKZ and the fronts went at about 25K but boy did they stop. I recently installed drilled and slotted powerstop rotors with their pads on my SHO and have no complaints. Though it had only been about 10k miles.

 

[SaveMelMac]

For the price powerstop pads aren’t bad when I sold these cost was about $8-10 dollars for a set of pads. They seem to use a softer pad material, some customers would burn threw a set of pads pretty fast.

 

[Eric Morris]

I just can't see a $10 set of pads being any good. There was one time I put a set of $15 Autozone pads on my F150 since it was all that was in stock, and I needed pads that day and it was 7pm. Those pads SUCKED, bad. I removed them after about 15K miles.

I'd stick with the best pads available from a big name like Wagner, Raybestos, Centric or the OEM motorcraft pads.

 

[Zpak]

I wish they were $10. I used the powerstop evolution. They are $55 a set at summit.

 

[Gmoney11MKS]

I wish they were $10. I used the powerstop evolution. They are $55 a set at summit.

They're a tough cheaper at rockauto. I got front and rear powerstop evolution z23, for around $90 shipped. So far, so good.

 

[SM105K]

They're a tough cheaper at rockauto. I got front and rear powerstop evolution z23, for around $90 shipped. So far, so good.

They are a good pad, as long as you keep them in proper temp range.

 

[SaveMelMac]

On the smaller cars they seem to work pretty well, when people bought them for trucks, suvs, heavier cars they would burn through them. I’m just trying to let people know even though places sell these at a high price they are a cheap pad. Our cost was about $10 and we sold them for about $30-35

 

[klrsmith]

I have Power Stop Z37 Top Cop pads with Stoptech slotted rotors on my 14 EB PI. I really like them so far (they have about 18k on them). Low dust and low noise so far.

https://www.powerstop.com/product/power-stop-z37/

 

[SHOdded]

^^^ if you can find the Z37, it is a significant upgrade to Z23 pads.

 

[klrsmith]

^^^ if you can find the Z37, it is a significant upgrade to Z23 pads.

IIRC, I got both the front and back pads from RockAuto for about $35 a set.

 

[mrhighcaliber]

I "want" better pads.

OK, forget the track part. Both EBC and Hawk have a rainbow of offerings (literally).

Using EBC pad selector, it recommend RedStuff. Anybody here try them and recommend them?

The Hawk selector tool is useless. They pretty describe all their pads the same. Great stopping power, low dust, excellent rotor wear, etc. Seems to point towards the HPS 5.0 (red) and LTS (green).

The motorcraft semi metallic Pads used on the PP taurus sho and PI vehicles. Great durability, better heat handling and stopping performance than the stock Ceramics and OE developed. Price is around 45-50bucks rock auto. Semi mets make a bit more dust, but if you need reliable, repeatable stopping performance, they're the way to go.

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[SHOdded]

Nobody wants to run semi-metallics anymore LOL.

 

[MNRubyRed2013]

Like mrhighcaliber, I also currently have the OEM PP/PI pads and rotors on the front of my 2013 non-PP and really like them. I've tracked them a couple times (road courses) and they have held up really well.