NAPA Adaptive One
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I ran these (pads and rotors) on my Tacoma and my Tundra and was very impressed. I would absolutely purchase them again. They stopped well, were quiet, and the rotors did not develop a rusty lip as many do.
they're good pads check eBay you may find a new set for much less than NAPA's in store prices.
Take a look at the friction coefficient on these. I ran these on my 07 camry years ago and was unimpressed. One pad was FE and the other was FF if I recall properly. This ended up being a pretty noticeable downgrade for this application when compared to factory pads.
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wouldn't this cause insufficient and unsafe braking with a mismatched friction coefficient?
Im not sure the adaptive one pads are still like this but when they were introduced many years ago their claim was that the inner vs outer pads deal with different cooling ability, thus their friction coefficients were optimized for that attribute. This meant slightly different friction coefficients between the inner and outer brake pads. This wouldn't cause unsafe braking by itself though.
Now that I think about it, I tried them on an 09 chev malibu as well and didn't like them in that application either. This was more than 10 years ago though so I wouldn't be surprised if things have changed since then. Since banning copper from pads, many formulations have changed.
I LOVE these pads for family's cars.
I wonder if these are actually NAPA’s top tier pad my uncle just had a shop install “Top Tier” NAPA pads at least this is what the shop told him they installed. They did not indicate product itself just described them as a top tier.
he’s been complaining about them not performing anywhere near oe says they feel dead and require a lot more foot work.
That was my experience as well. Not all applications are equal though, it's really frustrating finding pads you like at times
sure isn't easy finding the Goldilocks of brake pads lol