Well with 122,000 miles the front passenger pad started crying. Took the wheel off sure enough time to replace 'em. I'm thinking of picking up a set of stock pads from courtesy.

$57.01 - front
$43.19 - rear

Am I making a mistake by doing that? Should I be buying a different set then the stockers? I don't track the car, would perfer dust free, good stopping pads, quiet, that will last. So far the Nissan ones seem to fit the bill. Except $100.20 seems high to me.

Thoughts?

Oh btw... I have abs if that matters any.

 

Those are excellent prices for brake pads.
Nissan pads are pretty good.

 

Yea im about to do a full front and rear brake job and I want to know which pads are the quietest and best braking besides the nissan pads. What are the Nissan pads made out of anyway?

 

please help me with this, i just got pads from courtesy nissan, and that whole you don't need the pins concept is kinda loosing me, why don't replacement genuine oem pads lack the holes for the pins?

 

You might not need the rears. I took a look at mine rears @ 120k, and they were less than 1/2 worn.

 

Dang so now I have to pull the rear wheels off too! I just put these wheels on too. I 'should' have looked. Grrr...

Btw... I believe the stock pads to be semi metalic.

 

Actually you have to take the wheel off for the fronts also as the piston side caliper usually is worn more than the front side. The wonders of single piston calipers. BTW. I changed mine to some cheap Quiet Stops for like $35/fronts. I'm planning to install the 300z calipers at some point but these are pretty comparable to my metalmasters that I had before. These are less noisy also

 

Already pulled off the fronts to have a 'look see'. They are due and yep the inside is on the noise maker, well was till I took the screw driver to it.

Wizeguy - See now its good for another 50,000 miles! hehe...

 

How many miles did you get with a set of OEM front brake pads?

 

I've got 122,000 on the car right now. This is the wifes car and I do some engine braking. Btw... 5 speed.

 

Ok guys where am I at on the rears? Are they due?