Raybestos Brake Pad Life

[The Critic]

This is an update to thread.

I just had the car serviced last week. It has been 13,000 miles since I've installed those pads and rotors, and according to the technician, there is at least 10/32" (8mm) of pad remaining. That's 80% remaining after 13,000 miles, which extrapolates to about 65,000 miles. The original pads only lasted 37,500 miles, so these Raybestos pads are likely to last almost 2/3 longer!

However, there's one unusual attribute that I notice about these pads. On most brake pads, you would normally find a light to dark layer of pad material imprinted on the entire face of the rotor. With these brake pads, I noticed that the last 1/5" of the rotor face before the outer edge does not have any material imprinted on it. I've had the brakes inspected by two different shops on two different locations, and both of them said that the brake system was fine. My Saturn's rear pads, which are the NAPA Adaptive One pads, also do the same thing. Since both cars stop fine, I'm not too worried about it. I just find it to be strange.

Anyway, these pads still get the thumbs up from me. They stop great and they definitely last longer than the OE ones, at least in this application.

 

[CharBaby]

I had good luck with Raybestos brake pads/rotors just about the same as any good quality name brand brake products and, I've used many!(Bendix, Wagner, Store brand such as ProLine and WareEver). The only brake pads that I will never use again are High Performance brake pads such as Carbon Metalic from Performance Friction. I just couldn't stop the car safely. I always had to plan my stops way before normal. They must have needed to be really HOT on order to work better. I had to take them off and replace with regular everyday pads. Then all was well again.

But getting back to your post. I like Raybestos! Have had good succuss with them. Im still trying different products these days such as Satisfied Ceramic and Akebono Ceramic pads along with Brembo and Centric Rotors. So far so good! I've also been trying different places to buy my brake pads/rotors such as TheTireRack and RockAuto. Otherwise I buy localy at the national chains such as PepBoys, AdvanceAuto and AutoZone.

 

[GMFan]

I have the same raybestos brake pads on my saturn...along with raybestos rotors. I got the pads and rotors from rockauto.com for $90 total. They've been in use for about 10k now. I haven't had the tires off to see how much pad wear I have. I will check next tire rotation.

No problems to report yet. I just hope my rotors don't warp soon.