my wife needs new fronts on her '07 si. the last pads i replaced on any of my cars were some old NIB Hawk pads i had from '01ish that were just sitting on the shelf waiting until my old civic needed pads a few years back.

if i had a choice, i'd probably go with the fm1000 pads from Brembo, but they never made them.

what is the opinion on these hawk perf ceramic pads for low noise/dust and moderate performance?

thanks.

 

My Hawk's are noisy and create tons of dust.

 

ceramic? that almost seems impossible if so...

 

Using the Hawk Ceramic pads on my 2000 GSR.

Decent initial cold bite (good for a street pad), good heat tolerance, great low dust, no noise at all. I don't even bother to swap pads when I auto-x. I do swap pads for HPDE use though, but just the fronts.

I'd recommend them to anyone and everyone, except I tried a set on my girl's 2002 A4 and they would develop brake noise after a few months. She had the dealer turn the rotors and it came back in a few months. Getting fed up with dealing with it, I had them swap back to stock pads, no issues since. The dealership mechanic tried to tell me that the pads were "too hard for the discs", but I have trouble believing that my Vatozone Duralast rotors are stronger than OEM Audi rotors. I honestly believe that its from her driving (standing too hard on the brakes at a stop after heating them up leaving pad deposits on the rotors), but you try telling a woman "you need to drive differently" and see how quickly you just go buy new pads...

Anyway, I love them and readily recommend them.

 

Just to throw another option out there. I'm a big fan of the carbotech bobcats for daily driving. Good initial bite regardless of weather. Low noise and low dust. Wheel dust is also very easy to cleanup.