Brake Pad Help Needed!
#1
Brake Pad Help Needed!
I'm looking at getting a set of Rotor Works rotors and Hawk Brake pads for my car ('01 Trans Am WS6)
Hawk has three different sets of front pads (High Performance Street Compound) and two different sets of front pads that fit my car.
The fronts are as follows:
.594 Thick $64.98 P/N HB119F.594
.681 Thick $91.35 P/N HB217F.681
.575 Thick $106.83 P/N HB249F.575
The rears:
.540 Thick $79.64 P/N HB112F.540
.653 Thick $93.09 P/N HB250F.653
Really?? Why so many choices??
Why the different thicknesses?
Which ones do I need? If I'm doing just normal "spirited" street driving - should I just go with the cheapest ones??
Thanks!!
Dan
Hawk has three different sets of front pads (High Performance Street Compound) and two different sets of front pads that fit my car.
The fronts are as follows:
.594 Thick $64.98 P/N HB119F.594
.681 Thick $91.35 P/N HB217F.681
.575 Thick $106.83 P/N HB249F.575
The rears:
.540 Thick $79.64 P/N HB112F.540
.653 Thick $93.09 P/N HB250F.653
Really?? Why so many choices??
Why the different thicknesses?
Which ones do I need? If I'm doing just normal "spirited" street driving - should I just go with the cheapest ones??
Thanks!!
Dan
Last edited by ds2011; 01-24-2014 at 12:12 PM.
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Staging Lane
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I look forward to seeing the replies to this! I am buying rotors from brakemotive and I planned on getting hawks pads, but like you I don't really know which ones.
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This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).
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Brendan
This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).
This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).