I had never heard of these pads before but did a little online forum research and then called a few people in the indie service arena. My conclusion is the company and product have been around for some time, appear to be totally legit and have established a good reputation . .

The parent company is Centic brakes who has been around for awhile and well respected. The sad fact is this forum has a small group of people who run in a click who refuse to accept anything new and anything that is not uber expensive. You could show them independent scientific data of side by side comparison tests and show that these brakes are as good or better then the $500 set that they prefer and they would find any reason not to accept them. Its a small minded popular kid mentality and its really sad.

Get over yourself man. You may not be talking about me directly, or maybe you are I don't care. I initially made a comment out of concern for your own safety.

You spin your mouth off here with incorrect technical jargon over and over. You're non technical so stop pretending please....

The cost you paid for those pads was abnormally cheap. I don't recall "uber" expensive ever being mentioned in this thread as being a requirement.

I just hope (for your sake) they didn't cheap out on materials. The brake pad industry is NOT regulated (proof linked here that you probably didn't even know about until it was posted) and there are plenty of actual technical studies available to prove it.

Maybe it's a cost ratio situation where they can lose X on item Y because the sale quantities are low and made back on item Z where they are extremely high.

You're the same guy who keeps ranting about "AMG" tax so you obviously have no clue how R&D vs retail cost works.

Bull****, dude. You must have a fantastic view up there on the ****ing cross.

The clique (that's how you spell it) that you're referring to consists of people that are skeptical of your claims, because you have no proof, past your subjective assessment, to support your claims. We are skeptical of brake pads that cost $50; less than the cost of the oil used in an oil change.

You have not provided any scientific comparisons showing these pads are equal to the trusted brands. None. So stop with your bull**** allegations.

It's hilarious that in another thread, you're chastising a guy for complaining about an $800 service, yet you run $50 pads on your $80,000 car.

A couple of people are stuck on the pricing of the pads. Does anyone know the cost of manufacturing brake pads and what the profit margins are??? The more expensive pads could have cost the same amount to manufacture as the cheaper power stop brand. Lots of things can be done cheaper on the car, its not a bad thing. Mobil 1 oil is dirt cheap and I buy it instead of more expensive liqui moly or redline. I know not the best comparison, safety of you and others around you is priority but the pad performance argument can go both ways, only way to settle it would be to do tests of pad performance, otherwise both parties can be wrong but there is a lot more than skepticism in this thread its more like ****ting on the pads for being low price.

AHAHAHA This is a joke. Go to M3Forum and start raving about Megan Racing coil overs on an E46 M3. Just make sure you've bought a multi-pack of flamesuits cause it ain't gonna be pretty.

I'm gonna give this a shot.

If you want to buy cheap pads, tires, whatever critical component for your car, absolutely have at it. However, to justify those parts and say that other very, very tested manufactures are just overpriced is wrong.

We KNOW PFC, Endless, Porterfield, Pagid, Project Mu, make exceptional products and therefore the prices are justified based on the testing, reputation, and the performance those products are known for.

On the flip side, the OP's $50 pads *might* be fine, but we don't know and for the OP to come in here saying that everything is A okay and that they're in line with other high end pads is not necessarily true.

Now, if the OP says they're okay for street driving, what exactly does that mean? Does it slow the car when he presses the brake pedal? If that's the criteria, then yes, I'd agree, those pads are suitable. Outside of that, however, what's the fade like? How's the pedal feel? Do they work well cold? Do they make noise? A million other questions can be asked and right now we just don't know which is why we cannot definitely say that these pads are as good a X pad.

And for the record, I'm not old, rich, or grumpy.

I'm just going to add my experience as I have been running these pads for almost 2 years now. I got them because my oem pads were squeaky and horrifically dusty, and the Powerstops have been great. No noise, no dust, and excellent stopping power, once they are warm. Like most ceramic pads, they feel a bit wooden when cold. I even ran them at one track day and they held up fine, my brake fluid boiled before the pads started fading. Sorry to anyone who thinks that more expensive = better.

Does anybody else find it somewhat strange that there's suddenly a crop of junior, if not outright new, members popping up to say these pads are fine?

Conspiracy talk right there!!! If it was like 1 post newly created accounts then I would call power stop shill.

I have $50.00 brake pads as well...

I guess i'm going to hell

The people who least know what they're talking about, are the most vocal supporters of saving money on brake pads and tires, rather than on clip-on carbon seatback covers. On a 500hp performance car.

No, sounds about right.

I would love to see a side by side comparison test but the same people who squawk the loudest in here have scoffed at that idea and refused the prospect. Also when several members who use the same pads have left comments about their experiences the same individuals prove my point by scoffing at the posibility these could be a decent pad.

So far I have not noticed any fade, peddle feel is good and braking force is strong and smooth. The brakes a completely silent .. no squeaks or rattles. Of course im just a non-technical noob who can't possibly know anything because I am not one of the cool kids... kind of like the v7 post.. This entire post was intended to benifet the community as a whole by leaving a review about a product that I found that is a dust free alternative to more well known expensive pads but the cool kids just couldn't allow that to happen.

Jasonoff nothing I wrote was ever directed toward you. Sorry if you took it that way.

A Service - spending ok


Fake carbon fiber seatbacks - spend almost a grand here


Brakes to stop the car - buy the cheapest you can find cause you can't see them

I'm pretty sure this is indicative of some sort of mental illness.

You're already here...

More false information. Nobody refused the prospect.

Sup?

Should we go to the cage?

I feel left out on the action so I'll post this: Porterfield is Carbon Kevlar and have a friction level up to .41. They claim to have more consistency with fade resistant. I'm interested to see how OP rotors will stand up to the Z pads.

Damn I wanted BLKROKT Senpai to notice me and **** on my $50 Brembo pads

You got higher quality pads at a discount.

Doesn't count... I can call you an idiot if that will make you feel better.

Actually those brake pads always range around 50-60 bux. The 100 plus dollar figure is a markup just so that you feel better about your 50 dollars brake pads from brembo. I think he should of paid the extra and went with powerstop

In before fiery death...

So now we're comparing Brembo pads at a discount to these pads at full retail?

Are you trolling or completely missed the part where the brembo brake pads are always around that price?????????? How do you know they are discounted? The list price is different every website you look at. If you want to order some 50 dollar brembo pads I put up a link.

https://www.carpartsdiscount.com/dis...l?3593=1370686

Looked up the PN and those are rears.

2nd fail in this thread man... Rears are tiny and shared over multiple platform.

That's a visit to hell AND a fiery death now. Which one comes first?
Wipe the sand from your vag before post next time...