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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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