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« on: June 13, 2019, 05:35:22 PM »
The cheapest parts store pads are usually the softest and those stop best, just wear out quicker.
The hard pads are also hard on rotors and you need to be hard on the pedal to stop unless you are road racing where you use the brakes often. The rotors will not get hot in normal driving unless you are hard on the brakes a lot of live in the hills.
But as for what difference it makes a local 90 year old Mary Kay lady still drives the pink 60 Caddy she got for being tops in sales back then. She lives on an island with a wooden bridge with a stop sign at the end and was teriefied ater having the brakes done at a shop and the car skidded so easily.
I drove it and could no believe that huge boat could put me in the windshield at 70mph even with the booster unplugged. With just a light touch on the pedal. A normal stop just skids.
Another elderly lady to the rescue at DV Aldous, a brake place that had been there forever. She knew her stuff. "The shoes are too soft, we can reline them with harder material. Those huge Caddy brake shoes are not available in a wide selection of compounds at parts stores."
I put the harder relined shoes on and what a difference. Now it takes a ten pound push to stop normally where it took a 2 ounce push before.
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