Mix front and rear pad materials?

[andrewe77]

Can you do it?

[Licit]

Putting the rear pads on the front is a bad idea. They are smaller and not meant to handle 85% of the braking like the front pads. I don't even know if either one would fit in the other as I still have the same stock rear pads at 85,000 miles. What made you want to do it?

[Rogue9]

I think he means like front carbon metallic and rear kevlar.
or whatever.

[Licit]

Oh that's what he means, then yes.

[Greed4Speed]

The rear pads do very little. Why not go with cheaper pads? I have over 115000 miles and have finally changed my rear pads. They didn't need it yet, I just did it while I had time.

[Licit]

Originally posted by Greed4Speed
The rear pads do very little. Why not go with cheaper pads? I have over 115000 miles and have finally changed my rear pads. They didn't need it yet, I just did it while I had time.
He may be thinking of buying real cheap pads for the rear and then good ones up front. Which I never even thought of doing for whenever I actually replace the rears. I'm at 85,000 miles now. Greed4Speed when did you replace front rotors?

[fschambe]

I would rather put pads with more bite in the rear for increased stopping power... I used to think fade doesn't exist in our cars until yesterday when I did a full 120 - 0 stop... First time I smelled my brakes on this car!

[VaGT]

EBC recommends not to use their pads on the back if you are not going to use their pads on the front.

I guess they are of the opinion that pads with a higher friction level should be on the front... or at least if there is a large difference like you would see from EBC's vs normal pads.