skottydznt

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has anyone replaced the front brake pads/rotors?
what did u replace them with and how much did u spend?
i was quoted 280 installed for oem replacement rotors and i get to choose my pads

allst4r

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i paid 280 for centric rotors for my front and rears. havent replaced them yet, www.rockauto.com and i used oem pads that i purchased from sewell. about 56 bucks for the fronts and 46 for the rears.

Kurtz

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Are you sure you actually need rotors? Many shops try and sell you rotors when all you need is new pads.

Slammer1

Front and rear rotors and front and rear pads, all Centric, and bought from RockAuto.com. It's been nearly a year and a half now, but I'm pretty sure I paid around $400 for all of it. Haven't had a single issue with the brakes since I installed them.......

ISF4life

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You can either go with OEM, rotors and pads, register at sewelparts.com and get discount... Or you can get after market high end rotors and pads... for higher performance....

Shahryar

Which Rotors did you specifically grab? Here are the options I found:

That's what the dealer said. Perhaps I should look into a second opinion now.

skottydznt

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ended up finding the best deal every.
partsgeek.com
got the 120 series centric premium rotors and stoptech street performance pads for 175 shipped. the braking power is better than oem BY FAR and am all around extremely happy. installed them myself and saved money too

danhtran

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEXUS-IS250-...3f38b7&vxp=mtr
check out this

Kurtz

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The useful "braking power" is exactly the same, because pads and rotors can't change your stopping distance.

The braking feel might well be different though. But slam on the brake pedal and the car will stop in exactly the same distance it did with the OEM parts on it, just as physics requires.

If you want genuinely shorter braking get better tires, the tires are what actually stops the car.

Shahryar

Any other thoughts on these Centric rotors and pads? Assuming the 120 series skottydznt mentions correlates to Rock Auto's #120xxxxxxxxx part numbers I listed above in my post, the savings are pretty significant from partsgeek.com versus Rockauto. RockAuto's total is $45 (rears) x 2 + $70 (front left)+ $70 (front right) = $230 for Rotors only.

Kurtz breaks down in the post above mine how the Centric Rotors/Brakes combo may not actually be better than OEM. But my question is are they at least just as good? If so I'd rather get the Centric than OEM since the savings are more significant.

OEM Rotors from Sewell via the Clublexus discount is $450 before shipping. the Low dust front pads* are $80, the rear pads are $50, also both before shipping. So, I'm looking at $600ish for OEM.

*I'm not sure how this works low-dust thing works fully. After reading through this thread, I think this is the part I get for the 2008 IS 350. If you just browse Sewell's site by your car's year and model, you come to these brakes which I don't believe are the low-dust replacement.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong and please tell me which OEM brakes to get for my 2008 IS 350 if I don't want to deal with any extra dust.

These seem to be for the IS 250.

Kurtz

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The centric premium (non drilled) rotors should perform exactly as well as the OEM rotors. There might be some difference in service life (ie how long they last) or they might not be, don't know that anyone has done extensive comparisons there... but it probably won't be a major difference.

As far as the low dust pads, Sewell used to have a choice on that page to pick the low dust or the regular pads, but now there's only 1 item and it looks like the high dust ones.

I think these will get you the low dust ones:
http://is.sewellparts.com/accessorie...2012/4944.html

But I'd probably contact sewell directly to verify. They're usually pretty good customer service wise.

You can view the LSB that has the brake pad part #s here:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/3896137-post1.html

04465-30410 is listed as the old part # (and is the part # that comes up if I add the official 2008 IS350 front pads currently on sewells page)

04465-30400 is listed as the new (low dust) part, and is what I get in my cart at the 2012 IS350 link.

Shahryar

^Thanks Kurtz. I think I found the right low-dust front brake pads and took a screenshot with everything from Sewell over in this post: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...ml#post7075630

But if the Centric brake pads would also work as good as the OEM ones, I might as well get the Centric ones as well. It's not even half the price to go the Centric route from PartsGeek versus going the OEM route with Sewell.

ATremblay

as for rotors needing to be replaced here are a few things to take into consideration. Are they pulsating? If so a shop that can turn the rotors will measure the run out and determine if it's within factory specs, or if they turned them regardless you will end you with rotors that are two thin and become a serious issue with braking. The other thing is if you just need pads a decent shop with scratch the rotor surface to remove any glazing or other anomalies from standard use. The other reason is when the pads are replaced it will have a new surface to brake against allowing the two to wear together.

hope this helps