Break squeal help with race-ish pads.

[fasteract]

Have liked the bite of more aggressive ft. brake pads on my 08 MS3..Carbotech A's, HPS +, for example but hated the squealing..the Hawks were actually worse than the Carbotechs. Had used these pads with the permatex no squeal blue goo and high grade rotors like DBA's. Carbotechs were pretty quiet but HP+'s still quite loud. Found that putting on a cheap, softer rotor off eBay (there's a Canadian based company with the cheapest prices and Free shipping that ships out of Syracuse, NY) with the Permatex/Hawks gave me a much improved, albeit still slightly squeaking set of ft. brakes that perform great. Wears the rotors fairly quickly to wear limit..one set of pads lasts a bit longer than the thickness limit of these rotors but at $30.00/rotor no problem.

 

[BRIAN_MP5T]

How many KM does this last for you?

 

[fasteract]

My only real figure since I swap out pads before there are worn past 50% would be a set of Carbotech's which I wore down to 25% and the "cheap rotors" were just below the minimum thickness mark after about 10,000 miles/16,200 kms of a 95 mile daily commute on a twisty, climbing elevation 2 lane in the western Carolina mountains. I'm taking about a lot of braking from 20mph over the posted speed limit.