Looking for better brake pads for 2025 G70.

[richlang]

Can someone recommend a brand of non-dusting, performance, front brake pads for a 2025 G70?

 

[Administrator]

Can someone recommend a brand of non-dusting, performance, front brake pads for a 2025 G70?

Just a quick note to let you know that this topic has been moved out of the G70 Lighting forum and into the G70 Brakes forum.

 

[Husky]

Can someone recommend a brand of non-dusting, performance, front brake pads for a 2025 G70?

Non - dusting and performance is an oxymoron.

 

[EdP]

Can someone recommend a brand of non-dusting, performance, front brake pads for a 2025 G70?

For non-dusting, you may be able to switch to drum brakes. You may have to make an adapter.

 

[richlang]

For non-dusting, you may be able to switch to drum brakes. You may have to make an adapter.

Funny boy! As a matter of fact though, semi-metallic pads dust much less.

 

[Philbytx]

EBC are great pads with minimal dust.

 

[richlang]

Non - dusting and performance is an oxymoron.

On the contrary, I Performance brake pads usually have higher metal content which dusts less than a soft composition of street and regular driving pads do. High performance pads can be harder on rotors since there's more metal and metal than a softer pad composition but the softer pad emanates more dusting.

 

[Volfy]

Funny boy! As a matter of fact though, semi-metallic pads dust much less.

No they don't. The pad compounds themselves might not wear as fast, but they wear on rotors much more aggressively than organic and ceramic compounds, so the end results are more overall dust generated with metallics.

The dust that they generate are also more corrosive and so need to be cleaned off alloy wheels more frequently, lest you wish to have the dust etch into painted wheel finish. I know, cus semi-metallics used to be the only option for HPDE applications , so we had no other choice in the old days.

Some metallic compounds, like copper, are also potentially toxic to the environment, which is why they are being banned in more and more countries. These days, there are better options.

 

[Husky]

On the contrary, I Performance brake pads usually have higher metal content which dusts less than a soft composition of street and regular driving pads do. High performance pads can be harder on rotors since there's more metal and metal than a softer pad composition but the softer pad emanates more dusting.

I believe the OP used the term "non-dusting", not lower dust. Good luck with that.

 

[richlang]

I believe the OP used the term "non-dusting", not lower dust.

Yes, I should have said lower dusting.

 

[richlang]

No they don't. The pad compounds themselves might not wear as fast, but they wear on rotors much more aggressively than organic and ceramic compounds, so the end results are more overall dust generated with metallics.

The dust that they generate are also more corrosive and so need to be cleaned off alloy wheels more frequently, lest you wish to have the dust etch into painted wheel finish. I know, cus semi-metallics used to be the only option for HPDE applications , so we had no other choice in the old days.

Some metallic compounds, like copper, are also potentially toxic to the environment, which is why they are being banned in more and more countries. These days, there are better options.

So do you think most owners just stay with factory pads or try to upgrade to pads like Bosch? I read an article that X Wagner, PowerStop, EBC, R1, and Raybestos were NOT considered very good whereas Zimmerman, Centric, ATE Ceramic, and Bosch Blue of QuietCast were good.

 

[EdP]

So do you think most owners just stay with factory pads or try to upgrade to pads like Bosch? I read an article that X Wagner, PowerStop, EBC, R1, and Raybestos were NOT considered very good whereas Zimmerman, Centric, ATE Ceramic, and Bosch Blue of QuietCast were good.

Nah, last time my brakes were getting down I just bought a new car. Problem solved.

 

[Philbytx]

So do you think most owners just stay with factory pads or try to upgrade to pads like Bosch? I read an article that X Wagner, PowerStop, EBC, R1, and Raybestos were NOT considered very good whereas Zimmerman, Centric, ATE Ceramic, and Bosch Blue of QuietCast were good.

Article by whom and where please?
I've used various types of EBC compounds for years on various cars and motorcycles with excellent results.

 

[Volfy]

So do you think most owners just stay with factory pads or try to upgrade to pads like Bosch? I read an article that X Wagner, PowerStop, EBC, R1, and Raybestos were NOT considered very good whereas Zimmerman, Centric, ATE Ceramic, and Bosch Blue of QuietCast were good.

Any article that lump those brands wholesale together like that are not worth reading.

Besides, what is "GOOD" depends on your intended use. Brake pads are like tires. Track tires behave very differently than grand touring tires. Most folks are not gonna be very happy running DOT race slicks on their daily commute. Just like tires, brake pad compounds are all compromises, optimized for their intended use cases. Match the tool to the job.

I actually drove for more than a year with the OEM pads that came with the used Brembo calipers I retrofitted on our '19 Stinger, and they worked fine for every day commuting. Then we got into AutoX and later track days, and that's when they absolutely had to go.

 

[richlang]

Article by whom and where please?
I've used various types of EBC compounds for years on various cars and motorcycles with excellent results.

I would not be able to find it. It was on YouTube,

 

[Philbytx]

I would not be able to find it. It was on YouTube,

Probably been pulled

 

[richlang]

Probably been pulled

Same group recently reviewed car batteries so the brakes youtube should still be available.

 

[G70Derf]

I've used Akebono ceramic pads on all my vehicles for over 20 years. Low dust and great performance but, sadly, they don't make them for the G70.