Ceramic Pads

[tim hunt]

Along with many others I guess I just received the summer sale mailing from Moss. I note they now offer ceramic brake pads (GBP114CM) as an alternative to standard. What's that about - has anyone any experience of ceramic pads? I use Ferodo DS Performance pads with which I am v. happy.

 

Tim

[Graham]

found this http://www.autoanything.com/brakes/the-best-brake-pads-ceramic-or-metallic.aspxi like the bit about the dust not sticking to the wheels ! but not sure about the bit where it says '

• Good all-around braking characteristics but were never designed as heavy duty/racing brake pads

Doesn't Lewis et all all have Carbon Ceramic brakes………………?

[stillp]

Yes, but they spend most of the race complaining that the brakes aren't hot enough, or are overheating. They do sound good, apart from "Do not absorb heat as well as semi-metallic pads which can increase brake system temperatures". Would that be a problem for road use?

 

Pete

[bonrej32]

For a DD, ceramic pads are good enough. They also produce less dust than semi-metallics.

[Nigel Triumph]

What about disc wear?

 

Surely a pad made from a material as hard as ceramic will accelerate wear on the disc. With normal brake pads, the pad friction material is effectively sacrificial and disc wear is much slower.

 

 

Nigel

[Lebro]

+1 That's what I was thinking too.

 

Bob.

[Eddie Cairns]

Since the introduction of non asbestos pads the disc are more of a consumable than they were. That must be say 30 years ago.

[Stanpartmanpartwolf]

My experiences with Pagid ceramics in motorsport are wholly positive.

We run them in the Spa Six Hours in a weighty FIA TR4 & expect 15% pad wear in the whole event, with negligible disc wear.

A revelation compared with other materials, but £230 a set; do the maths & they're an absolute bargain.

Well worth trying.