OR, what's the best brand out there with the lowest brake dust? Experienced Hawk before but Advance don't offer them and looking for something before this weekend. Any help is greatly appreciated. My rear brake pads are taking a **** and a lot of dust sometimes.

 

I'm using duralast golds and they aren't bad

 

Same here.

 

I don't think advanced carries duralast though, I got mine from Autozone

 

Good info, thanks. About Hawk, I forget the amount of dust they make, but what's ur opinions? I'm going to end up ordering a set online for later on down the road and looking for the lowest dust brake pads out there.

 

Anything ceramic will have minimal dust.. They may "squeal" more so than traditional compound pads though..

 

I put the Duralast Silver ($20 for the pair) on my DD and they dust BADLY! I put the Duralast Gold ($40 for the pair) on my wife's car, and the dusting is minimal...I may switch over to the gold on my DD. The Gold are supposed to be a ceramic pad, so that's why the dusting is low on them I believe.

I have the Hawk ceramics on my Z28 and they have very little dust as well...and I'm running them on Baer EradiSpeed rotors too, which are crossdrilled and slotted. BUT, they cost WAAAY more than the Duralast pads!

EDIT: Mine are NOT Duralast...they're WEAREVER from Advance.

 

Whatever their ceramic pad is, I'm assuming will dust the least.

 

Very true!


I recently started driving a delivery truck for Advance (I'm retired, wanted a little pocket money). I don't recall an exact brand name on the ceramic pads, but we do stock them.....IIRC, the part numbers start with the prefix "CMX".

 

In theory Ceramics will dust less and last longer and be quieter than traditional semi mettalic pads, but semi mettalic pads, over more bite and better stopping performance.

From personal experience, the loss in performance is minimal. I run wagners all around and man Ive hammered on these things fro almost 50K miles and I still have a ton of pad left.

 

Duralast gold....theromquiets...get the best pads they offer and there pretty good for a daily driver. Not an hawk but not bad either.

 

Wagner Thermoquiets will give you the least dust out of all the semi-metallic pads they sell at Advance. The Wearever Silver are complete garbage, and the Wearever Gold aren't much better.

 

i have wearever golds with powerslot rotors, no issues hear. the ac delco sells the ceramic pads for about 40 bux and they lasted 3 years with no dust but when i checked them, they were all cracked. thats why i switched to the wearevers

 

how long does the wearever golds last?

 

i don't know yet. prob a few years for me since i only put 6k miles a year on my car

 

Last year I swapped out front pads at 30k mi. due to allot of dust. They were factory pads that still had some meat on them. I went with Bendix CT3 ceramic pads and Bendix rotors. 5k mi later i have very minimal dust, no noise and they stop pretty good too. Pads and rotors ran me about $115. So far I'm very satisfied.

 

AZ house brand ceramics here. Seem to stop as well as stock and very little dust. About $65 all around with a lifetime warranty.