Hi Folks,

Thought I'd get some input on this. About 9 weeks ago I did a full overhaul and got the front rotors and brake pads ( Mid range Bendix I'm told - They are for sure Bendix )in part of the mix.

Took the car out fun twice for a little "fun".. Maybe at most there were three times I hit the brakes hard from 200 down to 70. Then the rest being hard on brakes around 10k's of "fun" corners at "fun" speed. Only stock suspension and average tyres so not too much " fun".

I'll allow you to define "fun" to your own imagination however I'm sure you know what I mean :ninja:

Now in 8,000km/s I have chewed 50% of the brake pads of. :kb:
Got a nice crack in the center of all the front pads on both sides and a nice groaning noise to go with it. Oh and the discs are a nice pretty blue colour :P

Ok I am the first to admit I wasn't that "nice" to them but only 8,000km/s of a brand name mid range pad doesn't sound right?

That's weird, after 50,000 kms my stock pads looked new LOL

Oh.. Did you do some spirited driving in that?

I'm just annoyed that $80 each brake pad hasn't lasted much for 50%. There isn't much dust, the discs aren't scoured or showing uneven wearing. I was thinking slotted/cross drilled discs but now am worried it will chew through the pads quicker than I change my underwear. :|

Soft pads do wear quick once you get them really hot, and you did get them really hot, the blue on the discs attest to that. (Suggests temperature of 300 degrees C.) But if you had really hard pads, they would not have worn as much but your discs would show lots of wear.
In short, your choice - granny the car and have pads that do 60,000 km, or be Henry Hoon and eat them up in less than 20,000 km.

Treat your car like a race car, better be prepared to maintain it like one. Seen the size of discs and pads on the Bathurst 1000 cars? Yet they need to change them during the race due to wear.

Bendix Brake Pads – Australia

On the Bendix website they wax lyrical about – Put your foot down with confidence!

bendix.com.au

Hence as they standby and endorse the corporate slogan – my advice to users of Bendix Brake Pads with problems! Action quite simply COMPLAIN!

They set the standard hence they have to uphold their quality assurances!

Bendix Brake Pads – Australia

On the Bendix website they wax lyrical about – Put your foot down with confidence!

bendix.com.au

Hence as they standby and endorse the corporate slogan – my advice to users of Bendix Brake Pads with problems! Action quite simply COMPLAIN!

They set the standard hence they have to uphold their quality assurances!

They work, so no comeback. You can be confident that when you put your foot down (on the brake pedal) they will stop the car.
They give no guarantee on how long the pads will last, though. No manufacturer would, depends too much on driving style.

Thats because you need QFM brake pads! Queensland friction material, best brake pads around.

Thats because you need QFM brake pads! Queensland friction material, best brake pads around.

Lol says the companies they sponsor...

lol I'm sure anyone who has done extended track work in a Magna will attest it's not too hard to flog brake pads to an early death, whatever the brand.

Well I'm one to assume it's better to wear out the pads before the rotors. Other than the short life and one hell of a smell when you give them some hard yards the Bendix brake pads are beyond fantastic. Very little fade and they really stop the car in a heartbeat. Even with standard suspension and average tyres at 70km/h in stops very quickly without any skidding.. Just a massive nose dive. :)

What Madmax said about the pads is spot on. :)

The high end brake pads I've been told are allot harder. I might go them next and rip through rotors instead. As the rotors would then be cheaper than the pads. ( Not sure if this is the same case if I go slotted/drilled rotors but will see). I can do the labor myself. :)

I'm reading it but I don't believe it.

What is not to believe? lol

I tend to be a little 'spirited' when it comes to my car and my brakes but my Bendix pads have lasted me over 40, 000 ks and according to my mechanic the rear ones are still near new.

Consider QFM HP-X for your next if you're deadset on performance, if you don't mind the unbearable squealing everywhere you go like I'm currently experiencing from mine. That said, I have done a bit of spirited driving and braking, gotten them very hot, they always stop me solidly and I haven't experienced much in the way of fade at all.

9 weeks on a set of good Bendix brakes is horrible. Not sure what's happened there but that's seriously not normal.

Don't drive your car like a flog and they will last longer.

Honestly, if what your saying is correct then I'm not surprised. If they where a soft compound brake, then of course there going to die after the way you drove them. Breaking heavily from 200 is just stupid on standard brakes

. . . . . . some people just don't get the connection between how you drive and how long the car lasts . . . . . . . . .:io:

I expect the OP didnt bed them in properly, and in instead flogged them from new like a numpty. Quick way to kill pads

Thats because you need QFM brake pads! Queensland friction material, best brake pads around.

Noisest Pads around too. I pulled my fronts out of my Brembos after 500kms as they would not stop squeaking..

Are you running standard rotors or slotted..??

Noisest Pads around too. I pulled my fronts out of my Brembos after 500kms as they would not stop squeaking..

Are you running standard rotors or slotted..??

What did you replace them with? I'm planning on doing the same.

Noisest Pads around too. I pulled my fronts out of my Brembos after 500kms as they would not stop squeaking..

Are you running standard rotors or slotted..??

Do the Brembos or pads that go in them come with shims? Often noises can come from the pads being loose in the calipers, they can move about and contact the disc when the brakes are off, or set up a high frequency vibration when the brakes are applied. If no shims, there is some anti squeal stuff in a tube you can buy that basically glues the non moving pad to the caliper and the moving pad to the piston. Worth a try.

I've posted up a few times now about how to kill the squeal/squeak of QFM HPX pads. I've done it to two sets of new pads, zero squeal ever since. CRC De-Squeak. Spray it on both sides of the rotors, then go for a run with lots of hard stops to get the rotors good & hot to burnish it on. Must be hot enough to see and smell a bit of smoke. Then repeat the process a week later. Will most likely work on any set of squeaky pads, not just HPX.

KJ.

^ I may just do that before I kill myself. ;)

^ I may just do that before I kill myself. ;)

Probably cheaper to buy this:

http://contentinfo.autozone.com/znetcs/product-info/en/US/crc/05080/image/2/

That's exactly what he said. :P

That's exactly what he said. :P

That's exactly what I'm agreeing with. lol

errrr - cheaper than killing yourself, I meant. Funerals aren't cheap.

errrr - cheaper than killing yourself, I meant. Funerals aren't cheap.

Not for me ;)

What was the cost? I may go pick some up from Autobarn after I knock off work haha, the idea of just spraying something on my rotors to eliminate my brake squeal seems too good to be true tbh!

Not for me ;)

What was the cost? I may go pick some up from Autobarn after I knock off work haha, the idea of just spraying something on my rotors to eliminate my brake squeal seems too good to be true tbh!

Jakey,

About 26 bux a can. A little more work than just spraying it on your rotors, as I said you have to burnish it on by getting the rotors good & hot. Lots of heavy stops. I just found a very quiet road and then kept accelerating up to 80km/h and slamming the skids on back to 10 km/h (just short of invoking ABS). Over and over, a dozen or 20 times, until you can smell & see smoke. Made me car sick every time, but better than putting up with a bloody annoying squeal.

I actually had my mechanic put on new pads on the 05/09/12 just before a big trip. Done about 3000km with them since and just noticed a squeal again yesterday. Checked them today after driving home and they are bendix ones.
Haven't checked just how worn they are but the squeal doesn't sound too promising. :/

I tried that de-squeak spray that looks like silver grease. It worked for a while then after a month the noise was back again. Maybe I didn't get them hot enough, though it certainly smelt like it. Now I am trying some of that orange paste that goes on the back of the pads, also put a small chamfer on the pad edges. Will see how it goes.

believe it or not there are fake bendix pads out there, they are sold in white boxes but are stamped bendix. i phoned up bendix customer support and they said there products only come in proper bendix boxes!