Just looked at rock auto and my head is spinning. The 2016 Ram 3500 is down to the squeakers on the factory pads at 40 something thousand miles.
Truck weighs 8k empty and is 95% of the time pulling 4k of work trailer and when car stuff happens the trailer is bigger and heavier. I’ve been as high as 18,000 # before. Want pads that are right for me and will get close to the life of the originals. I don’t want to do pads every 12k.
Preferably something I can get by tuesday if ordered today because I am taking truck to Michigan Wednesday then taking it across the mountains and back a week later with the car trailer.
Another set of stock pads from Dodge. You know they work.
My 2500 is at nearly 80k on the stock pads, mostly towing 10k of trailer - but it’s all interstate, so I only have to brake when it s time for fuel.
Hawk super duty pads?
I've ran the lts pads on my sub and av and have yet to replace the fronts on the sub in 60k, it might be 80k, with new rotors.
Hawk pads. I had a co-worker with a Ram 3500 that was looking at a big brake kit with double calipers. I talked him into trying the Hawk pads and he never looked back. It was a 2007, we changed pads in 2008 and he's still on the same set.
i'm with keith. the stock pads went 40k miles of your duty cycle. why *wouldn't* you replace with another set of stock pads?
I ran the Hawk Super Duty pads on the front of the Jeep for a while. They stop well, they wear well, they take a good bit of heat to fade and they're not loud. But they're kinda dusty, they're hard on rotors and they're not so good in cold weather until they warm up a little.
AngryCorvair said:
i'm with keith. the stock pads went 40k miles of your duty cycle. why *wouldn't* you replace with another set of stock pads?
They're probably in stock at your local dealer, too.
I've had pretty good luck with Autozone Golds. I've run them on my loaded E250, loaded E150, F350 for towing, and my Colorado. They last 50+- thousand miles. Stop well, I've never had a set fade and I flog brakes mercilessly.
I would use Mopar or the NAPA heavy duty pads . I am using the NAPA pads all the way around on my 2004 F350 towing 20' enclosed trailer. No complaints, concerns, or issues.
Paul B
Friday after a chat with angrycorvair I ordered mopar ones from amazon, which claimed delivery today. I just checked and they’re now saying Wednesday and i’m taking the truck to NW Michigan on Wednesday. Unfortunately my work hours haven’t been working for getting to a dealer for them and the closest dealer damaged wiring on the charger during a recall and wouldn’t own up to it so i will light that place on fire before i ever give them money. So we’ll see what the carquest platinums are like while the oem ones sit on the shelf and wait because even though they have not shipped yet, amazon claims they’re too far into the process to cancel the order. Eat a D jeff bezos
Also had a stuck slider on LF. Looked like it was passed up for grease at the caliper abutment factory. Not cool for a 2yo 43k mile truck. Got it freed and cleaned and moving like the rest. So i have the highest of the wearever pads, which i guess is OK. We’ll see how they perform going over the alleghenies and back in a couple weeks with the enclosed trailer
also it looks like the pads were maybe 40% and the sqeak was the slider, but they were sorta crappy looking since brakes are about the only part of the truck i can’t do rust preventative measures to.
I’m an exception to the rule, because I put 100k on my truck every year, but I will stand by Ceramic pads. I put a set of Centric Ceramics on my truck only a couple months after I bought it and have proceeded to put 300k on them and now I need to replace them in the next couple weeks.
