These are the ASP part number. Akebono Ceramic pads.
I drive a rather heavy Ford Flex with the "heavy duty" brake options giving me 352 mm rotors up front and with my fat butt and my usual camping gear and half the kitchen the heavy duty brakes are just adequate enough not to get heat warped constantly. I can pretty much make the brakes grab and tires squeal/abs come on with any set of pads so I think that the limiting factor in this car are TIRES. With that being said onto the review.
Obviously 12k is nothing.
It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit today and due to a series of really stupid people I decided to make the review. These pads are rated GG for those that care, they took a long time to break it they perform well, they have a very consistent and linear response. They don't have a high initial bite like some Euro pads or semi metallics but the force is easily modulated by the brake pedal so this is a matter of preference I would think.
I have to do several "oh sh--it!" Stops today very early in the morning with COLD brakes and the performance was excellent.
I like the linear performance but many here would call it "wooden feeling". Push the pedal more and it will stop more.
Brakes behaved well in the Poconos and in the Appalachian brake torture tests. Again HEAVY car ~5000 pounds and rather mediocre brake size.
I guess the real test will come in 20k more miles because ford flex EATS brakes like fat kid at a willy wonka let loose in the chocolate factory.
So far no abnormal wear indication.
Dust? I cleaned my wheels while doing the brake job and have silver wheels. No dust that I can see.
TLDR
1)cold performance is great (at least compared to generic auto parts store semi metallics)
2)they seem to be wearing well
3)they deal with heat well (5000lb car going through hills and mountains with brakes that are too small for its weight)
4)Consistent grab on the pads but nothing like the high initial grab of Euro semi metallics.
5)No dust.
The pad feels very "Japanese", it works very well, it keeps on working and gives no problems but its nothing spectacular like its "performance ultra premium" name suggests. Just a good reliable pad so far. It has only been 12,000 miles so there is that.
Ford Flex tends to eat pads so that is somewhat good number of miles for the pad.
Edit: almost forgot noise, no noise, I never had issues with noise on any pad i used since early 2000's and the only time i recall any pads making noise is when something is very wrong.
I drive a rather heavy Ford Flex with the "heavy duty" brake options giving me 352 mm rotors up front and with my fat butt and my usual camping gear and half the kitchen the heavy duty brakes are just adequate enough not to get heat warped constantly. I can pretty much make the brakes grab and tires squeal/abs come on with any set of pads so I think that the limiting factor in this car are TIRES. With that being said onto the review.
Obviously 12k is nothing.
It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit today and due to a series of really stupid people I decided to make the review. These pads are rated GG for those that care, they took a long time to break it they perform well, they have a very consistent and linear response. They don't have a high initial bite like some Euro pads or semi metallics but the force is easily modulated by the brake pedal so this is a matter of preference I would think.
I have to do several "oh sh--it!" Stops today very early in the morning with COLD brakes and the performance was excellent.
I like the linear performance but many here would call it "wooden feeling". Push the pedal more and it will stop more.
Brakes behaved well in the Poconos and in the Appalachian brake torture tests. Again HEAVY car ~5000 pounds and rather mediocre brake size.
I guess the real test will come in 20k more miles because ford flex EATS brakes like fat kid at a willy wonka let loose in the chocolate factory.
So far no abnormal wear indication.
Dust? I cleaned my wheels while doing the brake job and have silver wheels. No dust that I can see.
TLDR
1)cold performance is great (at least compared to generic auto parts store semi metallics)
2)they seem to be wearing well
3)they deal with heat well (5000lb car going through hills and mountains with brakes that are too small for its weight)
4)Consistent grab on the pads but nothing like the high initial grab of Euro semi metallics.
5)No dust.
The pad feels very "Japanese", it works very well, it keeps on working and gives no problems but its nothing spectacular like its "performance ultra premium" name suggests. Just a good reliable pad so far. It has only been 12,000 miles so there is that.
Ford Flex tends to eat pads so that is somewhat good number of miles for the pad.
Edit: almost forgot noise, no noise, I never had issues with noise on any pad i used since early 2000's and the only time i recall any pads making noise is when something is very wrong.
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