Hey i was wondering where i can get oem brake pads for a cheaper price compare to the stealership prices??

 

Well, partsource carries the pads for the brembo's so I would have to assume they carry jobbers for your car too.

 

What, when I called partsource they said they dont carry brembo. I ended up putting on hawk hps all around last week.

 

^how much did the hps all around run you????? and also is it OEM pads or something similiar?

 

I just ordered a set of Brembo pads front and rear from Riverside Infiniti for around $317 with shipping.

 

From driving them sofar, they seem to have more bite and will have way less dust so I like them more than the brembos.

Cost was $220 w/gst for all four corners, that was at a local car shop, one more tuner shop was maybe $20 more in total. I just installed them with some grease i bought then burned them in as shown on the box.

 

well i got a quote for 150 for pads and labour i was wondering if this is a fair price???

 

I just figured out that you dont have the brembo so if that is for oem or hawk hps it would be a good deal. I looked on ztune.ca and it is around $150 just for the pads themselves, so installed at that price is quite good then.

 

^^ ok i forgot to mention it is only the front pads i am getting with that price plus install

 

Well I suppose with install that isnt bad, ztune has the fronts for about $85, so if you wanted to do it yourself you could do all the pads for that price, but if you want it installed then I would go that install route.

 

Just my 2 cents. I had the Hawk HPS pads before and there is a noticible decline in braking performance once the temperature drops during the winter months.

 

I believe my front set for my brembo were about 45$ from partsource and I installed them. They have a little less bite than the pads that were in there and lots of dust.... but I wanted to see how long they lasted... and for 45$ it was worth the try.

Partsource defiantly carries brembo pads.

 

Well I guess they dont konw what they are talking about there, they really new nothing about the anti squeal grease and just agreed with everything I said.

 

I'm worried about the winter breaking with HPS pads, what pads do you use now ?

 

So I have tried them all over the last 7 years- here are my thoughts

Hawk HPS - didn't like them. There was not as much bite as the OEM pads. Found I had to press harder to get the same brake feel. Definately less dust than the OEM. I found I had almost no stopping power when the car was dead cold or in the Winter.

Axxis Ceramic - hated these - waste of money. They stopped terrible, they sounded loud and squeeked up a storm. Dumped them in 3 months.

Ferrodo DS 2500 - Liked these. Good dust properties and good stopping power. Awesome stopping power when warm. I'm keeping these as my track pads. My only complaint is that they were too loud for me for daily driving any squeeked on occasion when cold.

OEM - After 7 years I've gone full circle back to the OEM brembo pads. These do dust the most but I've found that they stop better when cold than the DS2500 and have no noise. For the street, these are my choice.

My 2 cents