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Ceramic or semi-metalic front brake pads?

19,000 miles ago i installed ceramic pads and new premium rotors on my 2002 for escape. My brakes have been feeling a bit off. I noticed while doing my oil change that the rotors are really worn. About 1/8" worn off the rotors while the pads look almost new. I'm going to change out the front brakes again and just wondering if, since these premium rotors are worn like they are, i should just go for the cheaper rotors and semi-metalic pads and save myself the $100.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    just fit new rotors,keep the ceramic pads if still good.they are the best

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No, no longer required. Rotors are undesirable once you hit the brakes and your guidance wheel wobbles excessively. A reasonable wobble would properly be grew to become out on a lathe. this would properly be a situation pronounced as warped rotors. the only different try is for placed on and thickness. This ought to be performed with a caliper. If the rotors are too skinny by way of intense lathe turning, then they are in a position to crack, so that they might desire to get replaced. you are able to mixture any style of pad on the motor vehicle. The softer the textile, the faster they are going to placed on. So "organic and organic" pads would be crap in some months, the place semi-metalics would be crap after a twelve months or 2, and ceramics will final some years till abused. yet there is not any would desire to alter the rotors in the event that they're nevertheless stable, only because of the pad type. trouble-free important different and little ones rotors for automobiles like the Taurus and Beretta/Corsica's are $20 new at any factors shop.

  • 10 years ago

    I would save money and put the semi mettalics back on it. Those ceramic pads just cost way more and there made out of really hard ****. Everything wears out around them.

    Source(s): 12 years turning wrenches
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