Thought I might chime in. Around 3 months ago I started experiencing brake shudder in my 03 Euro. I checked my front pads (stock) and they looked fine and had lots of meat left. After reading varoius posts regarding shudder under brakes, I decided to change my front pads (to try and remove the build up and at the same time get some more bite). So I have been using the Acre pads and they are absolutely awesome. It took around 3 weeks of daily driving to get rid of the brake shudder and assumingly remove the deposits. I now have super smooth braking and significantly higher bite than the stock pads. There is however more brake dust but it is a wrothy tradeoff.....
I had shudders on my brakes and ended up changing the rotors to RBA Slotted rotors and RBA rotors. Heaps of dust but brakes great! Maybe I should have just changed the pads to save some $$$
How much would an average set of pads cost (4)?? Was quoted $168 installed. Is that a good price or should I maybe try DIY? A bit concerned about safety of DIY'ing.
Repco had a fathers day special on the bendix gct pads, rear retail $107, fathers day price with free bottle of repco brake fluid $63.99 and fronts retail $117, fathers day price with free bottle of repco brake fluid $63.99
I just bought Bendix General CT for the rear for $60, they feel exactly the same as OEM, installed them myself....versus Honda OEM at $135 + $90 installation as quoted at my last service. Could not justify paying 2 1/4 times more (for pads only) when they are equally just as good, if not better.
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