Rear brake pads, Any to recommend.

[716cuo]

Hi, My quattro 2.0's rear pads are very low and will need changing soon, I would like a set that don't produce a lot of dust as the current one's produce more dust than the front, I was thinking about EBC Green stuff, But has any one used these and do they produce less brake dust? Or can anyone recommend a different brand? thanks Darren

[Brycie]

Have a gander at this thread:

Brake Pads and Brake Dust

[Guest 2]

and this one too Pads need replacing - would anybody recommend Pagid?

[716cuo]

thanks for the links, looks like I will go with EBC then, going on the brake dust produced, I wouldn't fit cheap pads anyway.

[Crasher]

Febi or Pagid for normal use, EBC are good for heavier duty use.

[716cuo]

Okay, thanks for info.

[Brycie]

Febi or Pagid for normal use, EBC are good for heavier duty use.

Do you mean suited to those of us who don't spare the horses & often brake heavy & late, or do you mean really heavy use, e.g track days?

[Brycie]

I know it's a little old now, this thread, but hopefully still of use to anyone considering ebc pads. I was about to make the decision to go for ebc red stuff pads, despite the extra cost, but I've done some reading on ebc & some forums suggest that ebc are extremely hard on brake discs, to the extent that you'll almost go through a set of discs with every set of their pads. That may be a slight exaggeration, but if they are very hard on discs, this has put me off & I'm going to stick with Pagid instead. Food for thought anyway. You can buy an awful lot of wheel cleaner for the price of a set of discs, if their lower dust generation is steering you towards ebc.

[zollaf]

pointless using ebc redstuffs for normal road use, on the back of an audi. a tvr maybe, not an audi. they are for very fast or track use. green stuff are for fast road, but you don't really need them on the back. i run greens on the front of mine due to lots of twisty lanes and even though its an old tdi, i do drive it hard. yes i can get glowy red discs and no, they don't wear discs out any quicker than normal pads. i run the ebc turbo discs and got through 5 sets of pads before they needed replacing. ok only 2 were ebc pads, the others were ferodo's fast road pads, but they don't feel as nice as the ebc's.

[Brycie]

I thought the red stuff would be better suited to a car as heavy as the A6, . It's fronts I'm looking for at the minute.

I also drive around twisty country roads & don't spare the horses, and often get up to very high speed on motorways in the barge that is the A6. At one appointment in the Forest Of Bowland I arrived at recently, the smell of hot brakes was overpowering when I got out of the car. Funny enough it was the next day that my brake pad warning flashed up.

Now I'm undecided again if you reckon it's cobblers that ebc eat brake pads.