It depends on what you want. Some guys don't want any brake dust. In that case a ceramic pad is ideal. You want to stop hard so a ceramic pad is probably out, and the OEM pads are said to be ceramic BTW.

Personally, I think ceramic pads suck. They just don't give me the stopping power I want.

 

I have the Power Stop Evolution Ceramics on my Titan. Leaves almost no brake dust however the brake pedal is a bit soft but they do feel like they will take your face off when you really put your foot down

 

Ya, both answers so far tell me the same thing, ceramic pads are soft. My pedal has always been all over the place. I always thought that ceramic were actually a hard pad? I want bite, without much noise and with stock rotors and a consistent feel. Don't mind dust at all. Am I asking for too much? Dealer also told me that the rotors on these T's are really soft, and not the greatest. Hey, maybe they are telling me straight up that I should stick to Nissan OEM pads unless I change the rotors too.

 

I don't know if the OEM rotors are soft or not. I have 62,000 miles on my OEM rotors and I expect to get another 20,000 miles out of them. That's more miles on brakes than any other vehicle I have owned.

 

As an FYI - I currently have 72k on the OEM rotors. They are due to be replaced when I do brakes. They don't have enough material left o be turned.

I am not sure how the previous owner drove, but 72k on the OEM brakes is pretty darn good!

 

I had wagner thermo quiets, while better than stock they aren't as good as my hawks. No dust, quiet, and they stop even on oem rotors. Pedal is a little mushy but when some force is put on the pedal it really digs and gets you stoppin

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I had EBC Yellow Stuff pads on EBC Slotted rotors. They stopped HARD, very hard, and they dusted badly.

 

I had those on my old T. +1 to everything he said ^^^^

Especially the dust. My wheels would turn black driving home from the car wash they dusted so bad.

 

Local Oreilly auto parts sells a brand called Performance Friction. These things stop on factory rotors and leave little to no brake dust. Little more money than Wagner but worth it. I know many people that run these and love them.

 

I have read that a lot of the users on here do like the Hawk LTS pads.

 

X2 on the Wagner thermo quiets. No dust, no noise, just a really good pad. I have 87k on my stock rotors and still going. Going to do them sometime this year.

 

I have Hawk LTS pads (and slotted Frozen Rotors). I've got about 50,000 miles on them, mostly highway, and they barely look worn. Some people complain of dust with the Hawk pads but I haven't really noticed it to be a problem.

 

I had EBC greenstuff pads and their dimpled/slotted rotors. Insane dust. The stopping power was great....but they only lasted about 20K. The rotors literally fell apart and the pads were gone. Very disappointed with them considering the hype. I now have Brakemotiv. Great stopping power, minimul dust and the price is hard to beat.

 

If you don't mind the heavy dust, and you don't mind replacing the rotors and pads fairly frequently, the EBC pad/rotor combo would be a fantastic option. Mine lasted about 40k miles but the pads went and the rotors were almost worn past the slots. But dang they stopped this big, heavy truck and the ~6,500 lb travel trailer quite well.

I still have Green Stuffs on the rear. They don't dust nearly as badly on the OEM rotors as the Yellow Stuffs did on the slotted rotors.

 

I'm very satisfied with the stopping power of Hawk pads though they dust a little.

 

Those of you who are using the Hawk pads, are you using them on the stock rotors? I just don't have the $$ right now to do both, and since the turning of them is on the dealers nickel, I might as well get one last time out of them. Thanks everyone for the replies.

 

Those of you who are using the Hawk pads, are you using them on the stock rotors?

I have slotted Frozen Rotors. I installed them and the Hawk pads at the same time. Yeah...expensive, but am very pleased with the set-up.

 

Decided to go with the EBC Green Stuff, don't have them yet, but once installed I will drop another message. Bought them because they are on sale this week at autoanything for 114, front and back shipped. Thought that was a good deal if any one else is interested. At least I thought it was good?

 

I'm interested in knowing how bad they produce dust. Like I said, I tried the Yellow Stuff and hated them because of the brake dust.

 

I personally use and like ThermoQuiet CeramicNXT Brake Pads and use them on the "fleet"

 

I have the hawk LTS on stock rotors..no problems except that one time when I slammed my brake pedal through the floor stopping for our antlered friend crossing the highway...now I have warped rotors

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Still in the bedding process with that coating that EBC puts on, tons of dust. I don't think it will stay that way once they are broken in. If it does, I am more than happy with it because just tapping the brakes will send you through the windshield. They are freaking amazing compared to stock, and were cheaper. I haven't done any hard stopping or anything since the sticker in the box said to take it easy for a few days, but just the light stopping I have done is like night and day.

 

Okay, so with some miles on them, my chrome clad wheels get dusty in 2-3 days, after that they turn black with dust. In slower traffic, parking lots, drive-thru's, etc, they are noisy and turn heads. I kinda get a kick out of it but I know many people won't put up with that. I must say though, damn these things are so smooth and when you need it will stop hard. I live in a rural area so to me the noise isn't very often, but in a city or something like that, I would think twice and if you don't like dust, seriously look at a different pad.

 

Well, after 2 months or so give or take, the EBC's wore the front rotors to the point of my passenger side cracking. Truck has 30k, those pads tore it up. Thank goodness I was smart enough to order some slotted from R1 a couple of weeks ago Wow. They only have about 3-4k on them so I think I'll be alright just putting on the rotors.

 

With some new slotted rotors, even those green stuff should bit pretty hard.

 

Installed the R1's this morning. Performed bed in process as on the R1 site, and as many others have suggested and now I have what feels like a softer pedal than I did with stock rotors. I hope it tightens up otherwise I am going in reverse and not getting the results I was looking for. Golly, maybe I have to step up to the Yellow Stuff's. Or maybe it's that black coating they come with, there is still some left on the rotors after bedding.

 

Did you bleed the system?

(Meant to quote not thank on the above post)

 

I usually remove any coating on the rotor with a liberal spray of brake cleaner.

 

The premium R1 rotors come with some coating that is meant to be there. It's like a zinc coating or something, but after driving for a bit wears off on the face of the rotors and stays on the rest.

 

I wonder too, some have suggested that the factory fluid doesn't have a high enough boiling point and that when you start going to after market brakes that a better fluid is needed. Snake oil, I don't know? I mean it's a daily spirited driver, not a race day truck.

 

All fluids have a life span

 

Oh, I believe, I believe. I think I will just change and bleed when I get the rear rotors and go from there. Heck, when you are dumping hundreds and hundreds in the rotors and pads, a few extra bucks isn't that big of a deal! I guess time will tell if that zinc coating needs to fully wear off before they really get tight. I am impressed that they used G3500 though, hoping I can keep the shakes and shimmies away a bit longer than stock! I guess if there was a perfect combo for our trucks, we would all know the magic formula by now, lol. Gonna keep trying for sure!