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Hawk Pads
I had post about my new hawk pads, and just wanted to send out an update. They stop the car great,but make so much noise that i have taken them off and tossed them in the trash with about 100 miles on them. I replace them with acdelco pads. Now i can drive my Black C5 and people look at it because it look good, not because it sounds like a pig caught in a trap. If anyone is thinking about buying new pads, don't buy Hawk.
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I had post about my new hawk pads, and just wanted to send out an update. They stop the car great,but make so much noise that i have taken them off and tossed them in the trash with about 100 miles on them. I replace them with acdelco pads. Now i can drive my Black C5 and people look at it because it look good, not because it sounds like a pig caught in a trap. If anyone is thinking about buying new pads, don't buy Hawk.
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I have Hawk HPS pads and have not heard them squeak once. I also replaced my rotors at the same time. They have great stopping power and little brake dust. Dig them out of the trash and send them my way.
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Another thing that baffles me is the dust comments I see. When I went from the ACDELCO (not much dust) to the HAWKS the dust was horrible as well as the squeaking. Now I am back to ACDELCO and have little dusk and squaking.
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Given proper break-in and a clean rotor surface to mate with they shouldn't have made noise. I run the HP+ which are even more aggressive than the HPS and they make noise, but nothing horrible...
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Interesting. I am running the Hawk HPS pads on mine and they have been on the car for I'd say 15K miles. No squealing with them.
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Also keep in mind to buy the pads that are engineered for what you want out of them.. i.e. don't buy a performance pad for a garage queen or daily driver that you wax more than drive. On the same hand don't buy a ceramic pad for a car that is going to be seeing constant track abuse or hard spirited driving on the street...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
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Also keep in mind to buy the pads that are engineered for what you want out of them.. i.e. don't buy a performance pad for a garage queen or daily driver that you wax more than drive. On the same hand don't buy a ceramic pad for a car that is going to be seeing constant track abuse or hard spirited driving on the street...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
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Also keep in mind to buy the pads that are engineered for what you want out of them.. i.e. don't buy a performance pad for a garage queen or daily driver that you wax more than drive. On the same hand don't buy a ceramic pad for a car that is going to be seeing constant track abuse or hard spirited driving on the street...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
If you want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust pad go ceramic but don't complain about the poor performance and brake fade under stress. If you want hard-biting, high-temp, low-fad pads go with a pad similar to the HP+ but don't complain about the noise or dust...
I want a long-lasting, quiet, low-dust, hard-biting, high temp, low-fade pad. Anybody makes those???????
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I have Hawk pads on my C5, and they squeaked horribly for the first few hundred miles, and now I will get a very occasional squeal on a hard stop, but that's it. I guess you have to break them in thoroughly.
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I love my Hawk pads. I have a few thousand miles on them. They squeel only every once in a while, but it's worth it for the performance. I will be getting more when I blow through these.
Always replace or turn your rotors when you put a new pad on...
Always replace or turn your rotors when you put a new pad on...
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I didn't notice much dust and just a little squeek on the drive home.After running them on the track there was a ton of brake dust but they stopped great the whole day (4 30-minute sessions a day). I don't remember any noise from them.
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I've got the Hawk HPS pads on my car, no noise. As a precaution, I sprayed the back side of each pad with Permatex "Disc Brake Quiet". It's like putting a thin, tacky, rubber coating on the back side.