HELP Hawk Ceramic Pads

[Quackerspaniel]

I bought a set of rear and front Hawk Ceramic brake pads from raceroots.com. The front ones don't fit. Right now I have old pads on brand new rotors and I'm not happy about that.

I'm having trouble finding the right part number for the correct hawk ceramic pad s for my car.

Here is the part numbers that I bought:
Hawk Brake Pads Performance Ceramic (Front Set) HB549Z.702 1
Hawk Brake Pads Performance Ceramic (Rear Set) HB478Z.605 1

2006 Mazda 3 2.3L

 

[Quackerspaniel]

I have tried calling Race Roots multiple times and the number is not valid. They also have no yet responded to any emails.
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[got snake?]

Check this link out:
http://www.hawkperformance.com/parts/


I plugged in your cars info. The part no. you posted for your front pads don't come up as a valid part number for your car.

 

[hat1018]

Nope, what you should have gotten was HB519f.682 front and HB517f.608 rear. The rear number is like a .01" different but costs $10 less than what you got. What price did you pay for them, if you don't mind my asking?

 

[tigermack]

Should have go through topbrakes.com

 

[hat1018]

Nope, what you should have gotten was HB519f.682 front and HB517f.608 rear. The rear number is like a .01" different but costs $10 less than what you got. What price did you pay for them, if you don't mind my asking?

I finally got my hawk pads. HB519f.682 front and had a problem with the rear I got 571f605 and it turned out I needed 478f605 so I had to put the old rears on newly turned rotors. I am not impressed with the performance. Did you get your pads fully installed, and how do you like them?

 

[khoney]

I just installed the HB519F.682 and HB478F.605 on my son's '06 2.3L, along with new Centric premium rotors. I'm not impressed with the braking. I bedded them in according to the directions, but it feels like the rears aren't grabbing much. I even though maybe I still had an air bubble, so I took the car in for a brake flush. Even the E-Brake feels like it's not grabbing hard - there's no way it would hold on a hill. Not sure what's wrong.

 

[hat1018]

Ok, at least I am not the only one that thinks their car does not brake as well with Hawk pads. I also bedded the pads in and I feel I do not have full stopping power. Strange indeed!

 

[khoney]

I also get a creaking sound from the brakes just before I come to a complete stop. I'm hoping some of these issues go away after getting some more mileage on them.

 

[hat1018]

I also get a creaking sound from the brakes just before I come to a complete stop. I'm hoping some of these issues go away after getting some more mileage on them.

I have that same noise, must be the nature of the beast.

 

[khoney]

Still not happy with the Hawk pads

I'm still not getting good braking performance frmo the Hawks. I tried some fairly hard stops the other day, and it seemed like the more I did it, the better it got, but I'm still having to really stomp on the brakes to get a decent stop. Any idea what could be wrong? For instance, when hard stopping from 40, the ABS won't come on until the car is down to about 10-15MPH. The brakes generally don't seem to grip well until the car has substantially slowed.

 

[hat1018]

hmmm. not to sure what to say to the ABS deal, but I have found that the more heat (stops) that gets into the system the better. I would say too much for a daily driver. I have gotten used too it now.