Brake pads

[David Pertuz]

After calling my FLAPSes it seems the best thing easily available are
Wagner ceramics. It's either those at around $45 or another set of
Porterfields for twice that, and as much as I like good brake pads, it
doesn't seem worth it for the ~1500mi/year of city/suburban driving that
the car sees.

Amusingly Metal Masters showed up in an internet search, but they're
apparently NLA.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't think you could date yourself with a brake pad reference...then I
> finished the sentence :)
>
> I called my nearby dealer just for kicks and asked (I was starting to help
> navigate the parts-counter guy through the usual questions then skipped the
> process and just read him my VIN from memory and told him it was a 509 pad
> - what does that say about me??) and he told me one that it listed for $80
> :0 and two it was NLA. If I'm paying $80 for pads I'm buying Porterfields.
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jaret Rapp via se-r <se-r at se-r-list.org>
> wrote:
>
>> This answer is going to date me, but doesn't this mailing list in
>> general?   I am still running Repco Metal Masters.   I am almost certain
>> they do not make them anymore, or at least Repco is not in business or in
>> business by another name (Maybe DBA)?
>>
>> They were the pads to have as far as I can remember back in the day.
>> Came from Australia, lasted forever (literally in my case) , didn't stop
>> for crap until they got heat in them.
>>
>> I know that probably doesn't help answer your question.
>>
>> BTW, BOO HISS to Nissan for not making practically anything for our cars
>> now.   But they are putting the RB26 back into production.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com>
>> To: SE-R List <se-r at se-r-list.org>
>> Sent: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 12:52 pm
>> Subject: Brake pads
>>
>> What are those of you still driving your SE-Rs using for brake pads? I've
>> had a set of Porterfield R4Ses on the front for a million years, and it's
>> time to replace them. For my use case, OE would be fine but Nissan doesn't
>> sell pads for B13s any more, and they'd probably be overpriced anyway. I
>> have no idea what is decent and what isn't when it comes to the
>> (semi-metallic) options at my FLAPS. I do note that Porterfield still makes
>> pads for the car, so there's always that.
>>
>> (after sitting for a couple of weeks, I pulled the car out one day last
>> week only to hear an immediate brake-related rhythmic noise from the LF -
>> took the wheel off and immediately saw that half of the friction material
>> had broken off the backing plate and was sort of wandering around.)
>>
>> David
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