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Old Apr 11, 2010 | 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by new.era.13
and the new brakes are suppose to give off less dust than the ones we have on the car. The car comes with high friction performance brake pads, and you can change them to the dust less pads, but you do lose braking power
No, you don't. The brakes stop the car in exactly the same distance, because pads don't change stopping distance.


The brakes don't stop the car, the tires do.

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it feels different.

Yup. Feel is the only difference. Car still stops the same distance, you just get a more linear feel when applying the brakes. (Which is a significant improvement IMHO, allows for better control of braking).
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Old Apr 11, 2010 | 04:51 PM
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everybody got their own opinions.
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by new.era.13
everybody got their own opinions.
Your pads not changing your braking distance isn't opinion, it's physics.

I'm pretty sure we're all under the same laws of physics.
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 12:10 PM
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thats fine, but thats how im going to think it is.
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 12:14 PM
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he's trying to explain to you how it works.
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 12:20 PM
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i know that, i know he is right, but everybody has opinions about them.
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