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Mixing brands on front and rear pads and rotors?



 
 
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Old August 31st 04, 04:42 PM
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Default Mixing brands on front and rear pads and rotors?

1996 C4, street driving use:

It seems that it shouldn't make a difference if I use basic OEM
quality Brembo rotors in the back and Raybestos in the front - does
it?
Same for pads?

Would it make a difference if I used ceramic pads on front and
semi-metallic on the back tires?
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Old August 31st 04, 05:10 PM
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Pads will almost always have different frictional coefficients. I don't
recommend mixing them.

I suspect this may be true of rotors as well. I only say this because I
ordered two front OEM's a while back. They were obviously from different
stock and manufacturer, but both were OEM and carried the same GM part
number. I've noticed that the front-left will definitely lock sooner than
the right. However, could be something else that's causing the problem.

> wrote in message
om...
> 1996 C4, street driving use:
>
> It seems that it shouldn't make a difference if I use basic OEM
> quality Brembo rotors in the back and Raybestos in the front - does
> it?
> Same for pads?
>
> Would it make a difference if I used ceramic pads on front and
> semi-metallic on the back tires?



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Old August 31st 04, 05:10 PM
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Pads will almost always have different frictional coefficients. I don't
recommend mixing them.

I suspect this may be true of rotors as well. I only say this because I
ordered two front OEM's a while back. They were obviously from different
stock and manufacturer, but both were OEM and carried the same GM part
number. I've noticed that the front-left will definitely lock sooner than
the right. However, could be something else that's causing the problem.

> wrote in message
om...
> 1996 C4, street driving use:
>
> It seems that it shouldn't make a difference if I use basic OEM
> quality Brembo rotors in the back and Raybestos in the front - does
> it?
> Same for pads?
>
> Would it make a difference if I used ceramic pads on front and
> semi-metallic on the back tires?



 




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