Just curious, is there a certain brand of pads and rotors recomended here as well as a certain place to purchase them? Back in my BMW days the Brembo rotors with the Pagid or Akebono pads were the go to pairing.

Would prefer a name brand as the stuff the PO used is total junk and has carquest written on it. Thanks for any recommendations.

 

I have had great results using these guys: http://stores.ebay.com/Brakemotive.

 

https://www.rockauto.com/catalog/raf...ktemplate=true
Many different vendors to choose from.

 

I just replaced my front brakes with Hawk HPS pads and Centric High Carbon Cryo treated rotors. Big improvement over the crap stock rotors and pads Nissan uses.

I'm not a big fan of drilled and or slotted rotors for regular street driving...

 

Try brakeperformance.com that's where I got my dimpled and slotted rotors and paired them with the premium semi metallic brake pads

 

Good info. Thanks for the post. Brake Performance.com is good site. I wish i could find brembo brakes for this car but having no luck. But this site has decent calipers and now i need to decide between Red and Blue. I think i'm going to go blue since you don't see that every day.

 

Any thoughts about maxbrakes elite x-- series? [xd (drilled) or xs (slotted) or xds (drilled slotted)]. I like they are painted black - of coarse where the pad makes contact won't stay black but everything else should stay nice and black for a while. I hate rusty rotors.
They claim they use g-3500 iron - which is pretty good stuff from what I can tell. EBC uses g-3000. The maxbrakes are claimed to be double disc ground, mill balanced, and have OEM configuration on the vanes. I really don't see why the EBC would cost so much more. And you can get a good price for a set with what seem to be decent ceramic pads.

 

I was looking at the max brakes for an upcoming replacement when the time comes but all I saw for our cars was drill and slotted for the rear and Oem blanks all around. I could not find the drill d slotted for the fronts. If u found them can u provide a link or part number

 

Well I think I found them on their website. If you put in a 09 maxima they list and xDS set of 4 for $257. Part number appears to be KT077183. http://maxbrakes.com/c-1002950-brake...ries-kits.html
But I can't find them anywhere else.

 

r1 concepts rotor and akebono pads FTW

 

Thank you sir, let us know if you make the purchase and how they hold up

 

Hawk HPS are very good pads for street driving, they are all I use in all of my cars. Stick with smooth rotors. Drilled/slotted rotors look really nice but they eat pads quickly.