Negative experience with EBC Ultimax2 Brake Pads

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

It was the pads. He went to advance and bought a set of platinums for the front and the pad knock is gone. I had ultimax 2s on one of my cars that had pad clunk when backing out and then the 1st initial stop going forward. I switched to brembos and the sound was gone. I figured it was a fluke, I’ve ran ebc on my 21 since the oems came off and perfect. Seems like ebc misses the mark on a few models. To much money and pain when you can’t just run up town and return them. He emailed ebc so it’s a waiting game now.

Same thing with Akebono's and SOME German model pads they make.

 

[D1dad]

I’ve since installed a set of green stuff on my 18 rogue with high carbon rotors. Same pad knock, so I ordered a set of advics from rock auto. Comparing the advics you can see why. Ebc are a good bit smaller yet wider which is what I experienced with ultimax pads on my 21 Altima and had to file down. I put the advics on yesterday and they fit perfectly. The dust was so bad from the break in coating that it completely clogged the center slot and the caliper was a heavy dirty black. Ebc is mailing out a replacement set for free as they can’t believe that there wasn’t a defect in manufacturing. Either way, I’m done with ebc. To much aggravation and problems down the road from dust. I’m probably just going to replace the ultimax as well, I never felt good about having to file them and can see the dust and gotta believe that the break in coating did the same thing.