Best Brake Pads & Rotors For 2002 Es300

[Guest snugglebunnies]

Howdy all,

Who makes the "Best" Pads and Rotors for the 2002 ES300?

Should I stick with stock set-up?

I'm looking for better "real world" performance which will

offer an improvement from the first press of the pedal

(stopping power, fade resistance, modulation, feel...)

I am NOT looking for a "racing" set-up which requires

considerable warm-up and eats rotors (and noisy).

I'm not concerned with having to wash brake dust off

the rims every week, I believe this is a small price to

pay for added safety and performance.

Any good advice would be appreciated, thanks.

[Toysrme]

Hawk HPS, Brembo blanks. Don't buy slotted, drilled or dempled rotors.

(Akebone ProACT pads are the dealer installed pads.)

Flush your old, crappy brake fluid with whatever dot 4 fluid you've got.

Understand, that it's not the OEM brake pads slowing you down with brake fade. Before any quality street pad begins to really melt & loose grip; dot3, or any old brake fluid has long since been boiling in the caliper, giving you no brake pedal effort.

At any rate, without going to track pads (Hawk track pads lol) You're not going to get a better combination than Hawk HPS pads & Brembo blank rotors.

Don't worry about dusting. No one pad/type is going to dust more, or less than another. They all dust, it's a fact of life. Kevlar pads dust too... Don't believe the BS hype of them lol!

[Guest snugglebunnies]

Thanks.

[anthonyiez]

i'm a big fan of akebono and brembo.

[chargerucd]

Has anybody tried the "Performance Friction" Pads?

Just checking