brake pads

[Calvin Ng]

i got some cross drill rotors, can i use ceramic or semi mettalics pads on the rotors? someone told me i have to use metallic pads

and whats so bad about raybestos pads? all mechanics say don't use em. why?

thanks!

[John Hartman]

pretty sure you can run any type of street pad on your rotors.  If not, get ahold of the manufacturer.  Might be something different about them, but from what I see at work, rotors are rotors and pads are pads, at least for street use cars.

As for Raybestos, I've not heard anything bad about them.  We don't use them at work, but I've never heard negative reports on them.

Maybe ask a parts guy that you trust and see if they have been getting alot of returns on them?

[Andrew Steele]

i got some cross drill rotors, can i use ceramic or semi mettalics pads on the rotors? someone told me i have to use metallic pads

I may be wrong here, but if you use fully metallic pads, they'll just eat your rotors up.  If you use fully organic pads, you'll have great stopping power and your rotors wont disintegrate, but you'll go thru pads like ... well, i won't bother w/ the analogy as i'm sure you get the point.  

I think ceramic pads are over-all the better choice, especially on expensive cross-drilled/slotted rotors.  What would you rather replace, pads or rotors.  Considering how stupidly easy it is to replace the pads on our cars, I'd opt for the pad-replacement path.

[Matthew Giene]

As Tommy once told me, "No matter what pads you use, with friction, something has to give."

You either burn through pads with Organic pads or your burn through rotors with harder compounds.

In my opinion, the best option is the one that stops you the fastest.  But I like teeth rattling stopping power.

[Trevor Germuth]

For what it is worth our cars come stock with ceramics up front and metalics in the back.  Ceramic pads will also help keep some of the nasty brake dust off your wheels.

[Calvin Ng]

THANKS everyone! gotcha!

[Ryan Slater]

Just got my car back from lowell and he always puts pbr ultimate ceramic performance brake pads on my car if that interests you.
They are the pad on the bottom of the list.

http://www.mesaperformance.com/web_store/web_store.cgi?page=bmwcat/brakepad.html&category=yes&cart_id=6499.18651

[Calvin Ng]

thanks ryan!