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Stick with Lexus/Toyota OEM brake pads; they're the best and most reliable in the industry and give off hardly any brake dust or screeching. For a start, you can find pads like this at reasonable prices in http://www.irontoad.com. Good luck.
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Originally posted by lexusk8
Stick with Lexus/Toyota OEM brake pads; they're the best and most reliable in the industry and give off hardly any brake dust or screeching. For a start, you can find pads like this at reasonable prices in http://www.irontoad.com. Good luck.
Stick with Lexus/Toyota OEM brake pads; they're the best and most reliable in the industry and give off hardly any brake dust or screeching. For a start, you can find pads like this at reasonable prices in http://www.irontoad.com. Good luck.
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Originally posted by siniquezu
Are you kidding me? The OEM ones have a hell of a lot of brake dust! They are semimetallic so there's brake dust up the wazoo. On the plus side, there's not too much squeeling.
Are you kidding me? The OEM ones have a hell of a lot of brake dust! They are semimetallic so there's brake dust up the wazoo. On the plus side, there's not too much squeeling.
Carson Toyota is a grea source as well as IronToad (www.carsontoyota.com).
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I have Rotora Axxis Ultimates and they are great, added a little 'bite' to the pedal, and are not THAT bad with brake dust (not GREAT either though )
The car dealer had put cheap organic pads on the car when I bought it, so those had to GO. Now THAT was alot of brakedust!
The car dealer had put cheap organic pads on the car when I bought it, so those had to GO. Now THAT was alot of brakedust!
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get some hawk pads. the stock brake pads were eh.. the stock pads turn into jello after you do one or two hard stops. Matrix pads were about the same stopping power as the stock pads but didn't fade as quickly.
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Akebono, Sumitomo, and Axxis/PBR make good brake pads. Akebono and Sumitomo are Toyota OEMs. Stay away from Raybestos and Bendix. Raybestos have pedal feel, noise, and heat issues, my car had Kragen pads on it, but i installed OEM Sumitomo pads on there, much better.
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I bought OEM pads from the dealer for the first brake job I did on my car after I got it, and they were good. Then once those wore out I got some Bendix...never again...they chewed up my rotors and made a horrible squeal whenever I came to a stop. There's nothing more embarassing (well almost) than rolling up to a group of chicks at a light and your Lex's brakes are squealing, it's like you want to say "I swear my brakes are brand new!" I took those things off and used them for road rage purposes (j/k). I went to a brake specialty place in Hollywood and got some Sumitomo's, and that's what I'll stick with from now on until I do some sort of brake upgrade to the Brembo system or something...I hear Hawk's are okay as well but I have no personal experience with them...
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I bought EBC Green Stuff from Tire Rack and they are great. Great bite at all temps and the car stops MUCH faster than stock. The first time the wife borrowed the car she wanted to know what I had done to the brakes because even she could notice the difference. A little more dust than stock but not too much more. It s worth knowing I can stop much faster if I need to.
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I just installed a set of pads I received from tirerack and so far I am very pleased. They are the Satisfied Pro Performance OE pads. I installed last weekend, so do not have long term opinion on them yet, but after 4 days with them on I can say I am pleased. They stop my car better than the EBC Greenstuffs, which came off my car as these went on, and definiately have less brake dust than the EBC. I actually had to tell my wife to be carefull on her first application of the brakes , because they are not the same as the brakes I just removed. Maybe I performed a better install on these pads than I did with the EBC. The Satisfied pads came with their own grease/silencer lubricant and I cleaned and applied to all friction points on the pad retainer clips for each pad/caliper. The brakes have less dust, are quiet and have great stopping power for my stock GS400 brakes. They were the least expensive pads I could find as well. All 4 corners cost me $55.00 plus $10.00 for shipping. Here is the general link at Tire Rack for the pads I am referring to, maybe they have them for your model of Lexus as well.
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brake...rform+OEM+Pads
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brake...rform+OEM+Pads
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