Ceramic Brake Pads - Any Good??

[glregez]

Its time to replace my brake pads on my Maxima SE 1999. I have no clue what came on the car but I see some replacement pads are made from a ceramic material. Anyone had any experience with these? (Maybe i have and just don't know it).

Spark Plugs - I have been replacing spark plugs in cars for 40 years. All my cars have been american except for my Z. The parts houses list sparkplugs that cost from $8-$12 each on the high end for the Maxima. Whats up with that price? Thats about what I pay for a complete set of Bosch Platinum for my Pontiac Bonnie. Am I just out of the loop on the cost of Import replacement parts? I know the Z has expensive parts, but the Maxima.

Anyone have any comments for "rookie".

Thanks Gary

[DiS]

All imports have really expensive parts. It also deppends where you are getting those parts from. Dont know anything about ceramic brake pads, but spark plugs NGK Platinum are exactly same price for all nissans.

[MaxPayne]

Don't use ceramic brake pads unless you would rather replace rotors than brake pads more frequently.

Don't use Bosche plugs for the Maxima. People tend to have bad experiences with them in our cars. Use NGK. You can use the cheaper copper plugs if you like, you'll just have to replace them at 30k miles instead of 60k miles. You get a better spark with the coppers though.

[deezomaxima]

Originally posted by glregez
Its time to replace my brake pads on my Maxima SE 1999. I have no clue what came on the car but I see some replacement pads are made from a ceramic material. Anyone had any experience with these? (Maybe i have and just don't know it).

Spark Plugs - I have been replacing spark plugs in cars for 40 years. All my cars have been american except for my Z. The parts houses list sparkplugs that cost from $8-$12 each on the high end for the Maxima. Whats up with that price? Thats about what I pay for a complete set of Bosch Platinum for my Pontiac Bonnie. Am I just out of the loop on the cost of Import replacement parts? I know the Z has expensive parts, but the Maxima.

Anyone have any comments for "rookie".

Thanks Gary

As far as the pads go, I haven't heard any review saying that they are bad but I'm using carbon metallic pads made by performance friction. I don't think there is a street pad out there that give you the added stopping power of these pads. I have the carbon pads up fron and OEM Nissan pads in the rear which is the perfect combination and plus they don't squeal.

As far as the plugs go, stick with the OEM NGK. Other plugs just don't perform well in the VQ.

[97wvmax]

i have metalic pads, they get my wheels dirty quick and if ya dont clean after a while they sqweal like a motherfucker