I just finished swapping my brake pads out on my civic for a solo 1 day this weekend, i've been running my old hawk hp+ pads on the street cause i'm to cheap to pick up a new set of oem pads and i love the extra bite that i get evan though my rotors disagree. Any ways i stopped using these pads and switched to gransport gs3's cause a very small gap developed between the pad compound and the backing plate, apparently they couldn't take the heat that the 9" rotors put off at a lapping day. Back to the original story, i pull out the pads, they've got 1/4'' of pad left or so and then i put them gently on the ground, then my dad picks one up and the pad compound stays on the ground. The compound didn't evan apear to have been held down with any rivets or anything its simply glued/pressed on to the backing plate.


I'm glad that didn't happen on the street or evan the track.

 

YEah has hapened to me few times.


Edo

 

That is fairly standard. Brake pads are like a good set of R compounds. They are great for a limited number of heat cycles. Driving them on the street is probably what killed them.
No issues, pads are cheap.
Carver

 

The material can be rivited or glued and pressed like you have experienced, nothing out of the ordinary