Akebono brake pads

[jmair at urbanout.com (Joe Mair)]

I'm currently running the EBC green stuff on all four corners on the
Scirocco, and so far so good.  Granted, I've only put about 2K miles on
them (goddamn you, SMS!) but they bedded in quickly, are pretty
dust-free, and stop excellently.  I haven't auto-xed, so I don't know
about repeated use and fade, but for a DD and "spirited" driving, they
seem to work great.  Plus, the look of the green pads being my new
calipers is pretty cool.

Now when I get my Scirocco back this weekend, then we'll really start
putting on the miles.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Doyle [mailto:lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:40 AM
To: Spewey; scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Akebono brake pads

Hmm.  No experience with ceramic pads, but I did use EBC "Green stuff"
pads on my Camaro, they were really quite amazing.  Brake dust was at a
minimum, and I had slotted/drilled rotors on all 4 corners.  Wear seemed
good too- could have been that the brakes for that car were really
over-engineered but I drove it pretty hard, and those pads and rotors
probably had 40,000 miles on them when I got rid of the car and they had
probably another 40,000 more before they looked like they would be close
to the wear indicators.

Never used EBC's on a Rocco yet, but I plan on it.  Tirerack sells EBC
stuff, and you can also get them at Summit.

Brendan

----- Original Message ----
From: Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:54:29 PM
Subject: Akebono brake pads

Does anyone have an opinion on Akebono ceramic pads?

I am wearing my Mopar hat this week and doing brakes on a 99 Chrysler 
300M and I want a pad that is as dust free as the originals I am 
replacing.  They had fabulous wear and performance for about 80K miles 
and NO DUST on the rims.  Yes, I read their forum.  No, it was not very 
informative.  http://300mclub.org  Proof that every damn car has 
fanatics but not like you guys.

Akebono sells ProAct Ultra Premium for this app but also have a line of 
EURO Ceramic for Sciroccos and EURO Ultra Premium for Mk4s.  I want to 
get those for the TDI so the rear wheels stay cleaner.  Are they clean 
and civilized for normal street use?

http://www.thepartsbin.com is where I have been looking at these 
offerings but I have never shopped there.

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