Hi,

Anyone have experience with these Centric Plain 120 Series Rotors? Looking to replace brakes and rotors. Currently have Hawks HPS and OEM front/rear rotors (about 56k miles). Probably go with Hawks HPS for brakes but all the rotors are pretty expensive except these "Centric Plain 120 Series". Are they any good? Trying to look for some in Advance Auto Parts but they seem to carry the cheap brands.

http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brake...5&autoModClar=

 

Was looking at RockAuto and see complete kits (4 rotors + front/rear brakes) for about $250 for the performance ones. Anyone have experience with these kits? Not sure how long I am keeping this car, thus not trying to spend too much.

 

Never tried the Centric plain, but my Centric cross drilled rotors cracked.

 

How? From normal usage?

 

Yep

 

I have those. I'm actually on my second set. Pretty good OEM-replacement rotor. Resists warping FAR better than the OEM rotors.

I've run two sets of OEM and two sets of those Centrics on my car. Definitely a much better rotor than OEM. I'm running them with OEM pads (my preference)

BTW, rockauto.com has them cheaper for front and rear than tirerack.

 

How many miles did it last? How's the stopping power?

On rockauto.com it's listed under "daily driver" category.

 

Just checked my records. I currently have 156K miles on my car.

Front rotors went on at 102K miles. I JUST replaced them literally last week only due to pad wear. prob could have gotten another 5K out of them if I let the pads wear down til they dug into the rotors. Rotors were fine, but I tend to replace front rotors and pads together every time.

Rear rotors and new OEM pads went on at 83K miles. Rotors are still on the car, but pads are due soon. Rear rotors are cheap so I might just get a new set again anyway although they look great.

Stopping power has been great. Never had I not had enough brake when needed. Had some soft pedal issues, but that was due to seizing rear calipers. Replaced both rear calipers with remans and braking performance back to normal.

 

Centric is the OEM manufacturer for many "performance" brands, like StopTech. Can't go wrong using them. I usually stay away from drilled and/or slotted rotors, so I don't really have any feed back on those. Except that I had good luck with set of PowerSlot Cyro treated rotors that I used on my old '03 Maxima years ago.

 

Thanks for the feedback. On rockauto they have this kit which includes all rotors and brake pads for only $150. Wonder if this is any good?

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/more...nid=383&jpid=3

 

See my post above.

 

Hole are probably machined post casting, which causes stress which leads to cracks.


I personally recommend against X-drilled replacement rotors for that reason. Usually in most applications they are simply for looks and do nothing for performance gains. A $2.5K BBK with X-drilled rotors is NOT the same as slapping $50 rotors on your accord. Different engineering completely.

 

ALL rotors are machined "post casting".

 

i use centric/powerslot slotted. love em. im sure its the same as the centric plain without slots

 

I ended up getting the Centric plain 120 series rotors and Centric posi quiet ceramic pads from rockauto. Thanks all.