Dust, Dust and more Brake dust

Oz550 said:

Hi All

While on my 2nd D40. The 1st one had a huge problem with brake dust at the front wheels. Sick and tired of this, I found thar RDA had a replacment pads with little to no dust available. RDB1989SM. Can find on Ebay. These pads worked for over 50,000 K's and was sold still in the 1st D40.
No noticable reduction in braking performance at all.
Now. The 2nd D40. Mmmm! Yesterday I got another set of the pads I fitted to the 1st D40 and found they would not fit. YES Nissan has changed the calipers on my 09/2011 ute. :-( The new pads have the tabs on each pad and the slide pins on the ends of the pad metal backing is a different size. I noticed Nissan had changed the front end too. The old pads only had the metal tabs on 1 pad for each caliper.
I've got RDA looking into it now. So in the mean time. Dust, dust dust.

Had the Red Stuff pads installed for a few months now. VERY LOW dust Good stopping power. I will use these pads again.

Paul

2nd post:

The STX550 has 320mm front rotors. My '07 had 296mm rotors.
I've changed the pads to EBC Greenstuff DP71671 but they are still dusty. Not as bad as the factory pads. Next..... I've ordered some Redstuff pads. They claim to be almost dustless. I'll give them a go.

3rd Post:

Not happy with the green stuff pads. More crap dust.
Ordered the Red stuff version this time and have a pair of 320mm slotted / cross drilled rotors waiting here. Redstuff claim to have low dust.

320mm Grenstuff EBC p/n = DP71671
320mm Redstuff EBC = DP31671C

I've learned that the 320mm rotors were fitted to D40's with 17" rims. As opposed to the 16" having 296mm rotors

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