help!!! need front pads for my ZZE122

[vvti16v]

Can anyone tell me what's a good pad to use? I currently havd the TRD but it only lasted for 10 months.

[MR22ZZ]

Budget performance - Bendix Ultimate ~$80-100 a pair

Midrange Performance - Ferodo 2500 ~$150-$250 a pair

Higher end - Endless NA-Y ~$250-$300

Top end......... well I'm sure you don't want to go there, they would be the 'Track Only' type that are really not suitable as a all around pad

[vvti16v]

Budget performance - Bendix Ultimate ~$80-100 a pair

Midrange Performance - Ferodo 2500 ~$150-$250 a pair

Higher end - Endless NA-Y ~$250-$300

Top end......... well I'm sure you don't want to go there, they would be the 'Track Only' type that are really not suitable as a all around pad

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Thanks for that, do u knoe if EBC do one for the corolla? and you guys know how to install a shift light?

[shaohaok]

stay away from EBC. apparently don't work very well or up to their claims.

[Pippy]

Select one to suit your driving style.

You'll find that the more and fast your wear out your pads is probably not a bad thing, otherwise it'll be the other way around.

i.e. aggressive pads tend to wear out the rotors instead.... (isn't that right shao?!)

I use Lucas, cheap and reliable! :) have not faded on me yet on road or track! :D

sensitive but not too aggressive... ;)

[CHA54]

from personal experience I'd go with the Ferodo DS2500, if they dont make a pad for your car, the guys at St Mary's Specialised Brake and Clutch can cut a pad to suit your car from a larger pad.

[teddy1386]

would any one know if there are any pads available with low brake dust. have to be south africa model. apparently they use diff pads. i've rung up bendix to ask for bendix ultimate and they dont make it for the zze122 or 1zzfe.

[Rolla Boy]

would any one know if there are any pads available with low brake dust. have to be south africa model. apparently they use diff pads. i've rung up bendix to ask for bendix ultimate and they dont make it for the zze122 or 1zzfe.

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Nothing but problems with South African brakes... All pads and all rotors trashed by 20,000kms :( :( :( ...

[shaohaok]

would any one know if there are any pads available with low brake dust. have to be south africa model. apparently they use diff pads. i've rung up bendix to ask for bendix ultimate and they dont make it for the zze122 or 1zzfe.

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Nothing but problems with South African brakes... All pads and all rotors trashed by 20,000kms :( :( :( ...

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i can't agree more.

[shaohaok]

have to be south africa model. apparently they use diff pads.

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are u sure? where did u get that from?

sportivos do use a different pad and rotor than the rest of the range, tho.

Edited October 24, 2005 by shaohaok

[Blackzze]

Sportivos have larger discs (about 25mm) and bigger (jap spec celica GT) calipers with larger pads.

And can't agree more, my first 40,000k's brakes were ***** e .

[MR22ZZ]

mine have only lasted 35,000km... they were ~5mm at 30,000 too, the 2nd half of the pad just deteriorated

[Bobjones]

Do you guys HONESTLY think stock pads are going to handle the way you drive...

Its one of the first things I upgrade on any car (that I intend to mod)...

EBC's are good pads, but they are dusty...at the end of the day a harder pad is more likely to wear disks quicker and also work at higher temps to...

Endless are overprices unless you are doing some serious track work...

Bendix Ultimates are good if you can get them...have run them on a few cars with upgraded rotors and they have been fine, only when you punish them will they start to fade, and sometimes that is also as a result of the fluid getting hot and the lines heating as they are rubber...another two items that should be upgraded...

Its all about a compromise...