Brake Pads
 

looking into find out what brake pads are the best to use for a pacifica. i was gonna put hawk pads on but it seems they only sell them for the front. should i do hawk in the front and something else in rear for find a set to do all 4. i emailed hawk to see if they sell rear pads. any suggestions ?

RE: Brake Pads
 

i would go with a ceramic pad very little brake dust wheels would stay a lot cleaner their are a lot of
brands out their

RE: Brake Pads
 

Front pads will generally wear down quicker, so you COULD go with different brands for front and back. I have ferro-carbon Hawk's on my current vehicle (1999 Olds Aurora) with drilled & slotted brake rotors and it's a great combo. I bought the rotors from "RaceConcepts", a brake parts seller on eBay - not sure if they have Pacifica parts or not, but if I end up buying a Pac I'll certainly be checking back with them.

RE: Brake Pads
 

never tried ferro-carbon hawks are they dust free i like to keep my wheels clean

RE: Brake Pads
 

Not dust-free, but lower dusting than standard pads I believe. When I have polished my chrome wheels, the dust came off quite easily with standard Mother's car wax. Works great for chrome. Ferro-carbons supposedly have better stopping power overall and better longevity than ceramics.

RE: Brake Pads
 

hate break dust i am a clean freak will settle lower mil on my pads have had no problems on stopping power

RE: Brake Pads
 

Will the ferro carbons or ceramics wear the rotors out faster? I need to buy some too for the fronts on my PAC and also my Town and country. The T&C is a true dust generator but these are not factory pads.

RE: Brake Pads
 

Not that I'm aware of. I'm no brake expert, but rotor wear should be more affected by braking style (i.e. "stomping" on brakes all the time will warp rotors) and environmental conditions than the type of pad used.

RE: Brake Pads
 

I ask because in a differet car.. VW bug, I put some very ferrous shoesin the rear and they wore into the drums so bad, I could not get the drums off without adjusting the adjusters all the way in. (don't remember what theywere called and this was manyyears ago).Not apples and applescomparison (rotors)but a hunk a metal with some type of material pressing against it.

RE: Brake Pads
 

I believe that modern ferro-carbon pads are a fairly new design and generally consider higher performance than standard pads... I certainly have not had any problems like you describe, and I know of many others with the same Hawk HPS pads I have with no reports of rotor problems.