Ceramic Brake Pads?

I keep seeing these and reading about them, but have not found anyone who has ceramic brake pads on their vehicle. Are they worth the extra $$?

Tje garage that i take my truck to for most of the work that i can not or do not want to do say that they are not good cause they are harder than regular pads and could cause warpage of the rotors quicker. When i had my brakes done they installed a set of wagner suv pads.

Check with your dealer, most Chevy trucks came with Ceramic.....

imho i hate them....they warp rotors like no other

i use the top of line ones at napa...stay cool, low dust and dont warp rotors

I like mine, I put Raybestos pads front and rear. I also put cross drilled and slotted rotors on to combat heat damage. The pads are clean and i have great all weather stopping.

Check with your dealer, most Chevy trucks came with Ceramic.....


And how many people on this forum alone have been complaining about warped rotors.

I installed some ceramic pads after going to the bigger tires hoping that they would help out a bit. NOPE. Within two weeks I was getting nasty squeeking and vibration from the front. This off of brand new ceramics and machined rotors. They seem harder than the rotor. Now I just leave more space b/w me and the car in front of me....lol

Warping? Is this something specific to the Chevys? I've used ceramics on other vehicles and never had any problems with warping.

I installed some ceramic pads after going to the bigger tires hoping that they would help out a bit. NOPE. Within two weeks I was getting nasty squeeking and vibration from the front. This off of brand new ceramics and machined rotors. They seem harder than the rotor. Now I just leave more space b/w me and the car in front of me....lol

ceramic is harder than steel... many knife sharpeners are ceramic

Warping? Is this something specific to the Chevys? I've used ceramics on other vehicles and never had any problems with warping.

I don't know if it is specific to chevy, but there have seen a fair amount on here complaining about it and that is with factory equipment. (rotors and pads).

ceramic is harder than steel... many knife sharpeners are ceramic


Hell for that matter , my brother had a knife that the blade was ceramic. I don't know if he still has it or if he ever tried sharpening it or not though.

I had so much trouble with the factory rotors and pads that I switched over to Brembo slotted rotors and NAPA ceramic pads and have had no problems of any kind.

I just pulled the ceramic pads off of my 98 Silv after putting my second set of rotors on. I read a great article on the web about what most people think is warped rotors is actuall pad material built up on the rotor. To test this I pulled my ceramic pads, polished the 'dirty looking half' of the rotor with some silicon carbide sand paper until shinny, put semi-met pads on and the pulsation was gone!!!