Matching brake pads

[Neejay]

Are you supposed to have the same brand pads in the front and rear? Or just the most aggressive pad in the front?

[Cool Cat Racing]

Pads are never the same front to rear. There are various compounds even among the same brand and level. They go by application. For a street car just get some HPS pads front and rear and if you do some track days go to HP+ on the front and leave the rears. If you get to aggressive on either you'll just end up locking them up all the time, whether that be front or rears.

[Neejay]

I'm actually asking in reference to my DD (Acura TL). I'm getting some Rotora slotted rotors and rotora pads, but the rears are stock rotors and unknown pads (bought the car with them already in). Was wondering if I should upgrade the rear pads too.

I have q45 fronts, so the only aftermarket option is really Hawk HPS. So you're saying go with Hawk HPS for front and back? I have some PBR front pads, and duralast golds on the rear...currently.

[Cool Cat Racing]

Even the HPS pad used in a front/rear is slightly different. I prefer to use the same types front and rear for street use. HPS fronts and rears tend to work great. The TL I'd get some better pads for the rear but with the multichannel ABS systems they use you don't have much to worry about. If you can engage the ABS you don't ever need anything any better so you're just wasting your money if you go past that.

[~The_Duke~]

Personally I prefer to have a more aggressive pad in the front.

On my Sentra I ran an HP+ in the front and HPS in the rear. Partly because they didnt make HP+ for the rear, but also because of the brake balance and wear it was pointless to put anything good back there anyway.

[Photonic]

Personally I prefer to have a more aggressive pad in the front.

On my Sentra I ran an HP+ in the front and HPS in the rear. Partly because they didnt make HP+ for the rear, but also because of the brake balance and wear it was pointless to put anything good back there anyway.

I agree whole heartedly.

Front and rear HPS HP+ etc on stock brakes is such a waste of money.

HPS or HP+ on the front and any pad on the rear should do fine. 75% of your braking is in the front anyway.

And braking power is going to be fine with a stock pad in the rear. The reason you run better pads on stock brakes is mainly for Heat dissipation And the rear brakes dont sustain a load high enough to need the heat resistance of an HPS really..that potential will just never be used

[~The_Duke~]

Just as an example, I went through 3 sets of front pads before I had to change the rear pads, and 2 sets of rotors on the front before I had to change the rear rotors on the sentra.

[Sir_Alexander_Slideways]

Just as an example, I went through 3 sets of front pads before I had to change the rear pads, and 2 sets of rotors on the front before I had to change the rear rotors on the sentra.

thats probably the worst i have heard of. reps.

[~The_Duke~]

thats probably the worst i have heard of. reps.

Well I am alil harder on brake systems than most people on this forum I would venture to say, so mine example was prolly alil more extreme than what you would find a normal person's car. lol

[Sparta]

Just as an example, I went through 3 sets of front pads before I had to change the rear pads, and 2 sets of rotors on the front before I had to change the rear rotors on the sentra.


Im on my 4th set of fronts and have yet to need to change the rear. They still have like 50% life on them.

[~The_Duke~]

Im on my 4th set of fronts and have yet to need to change the rear. They still have like 50% life on them.

haha... Damn son... lol

[Cool Cat Racing]

I get about 800 miles to a set of fronts on the silver miata and about 1200 miles on the rears. Of course that's nearly all track miles. That's using a set of Wilwood H's up front and HP+ on the rear. We average about 200 miles per weekend so that's only about 2 months on each set of fronts.

[I RON DON KEY]

I've got project mu in the fronts, durlast gold in the rear. life time warray baby!

[Neejay]

hmm...yeah, I've made my decision. I'll stick with my duralast gold rears and get Hawk HPS q45 fronts on the s13, and on the TL I'll stick with the rotora slotted fronts + rotora pads and just keep use oem rears when the time comes to change the rear pads.

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Thanks a lot guys.