Ceramic brake pads

  1. My model of MX-5 is: __NC 2005
  2. I’m based near: __galway
  3. I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: __ brake ads

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Has anyone used ceramic brake pads in the front and found them effective ? i just want to stop all the black dust that is flying off my current ones if poss .
willie

Pretty sure standard Mazda pads are Japanese, and all Japanese brake pads have been ceramic for at least 10 years. Also, ceramic pads do dust up.

A while ago I used Bendix ceramic pads. they stopped fine, but you have to bed them in in a specific manner (take the car up to 70mph, then a couple of hard stops to 10mph (ie. pick a quiet road), then gingerly get home while not touching the brakes. Then they are good to go, but that particularly compound needed warming a bit before they were full effective, but better than most track pads. And they still dusted the wheel.

Thanks for that. i might just stay as is… I thought the ceramic might be a magic answer.

willie

Whether they’ve changed in recent years, I found genuine Mazda pads to spew off less dust (considerably less) than the Ferodo I have now.
I’ve had the fronts smoking too (too hot) but never with the Mazda pads. The smoking bit came as I was negotiating the Bealach na Ba in Scotland.
So I recommend genuine Mazda pads for less dust.

Mazda pads are made by Sumitomo. ADL (Blueprint) I think rebox Sumitomo pads.

Aaah, the pass of the cattle - never done that in my MX5, scary on a bike though!

I would stay clear of ADL just a reboxing company and buy anything that’s cheap from China to put in the box

Would recomend TRW DTEC range if they do them for the 5

The Blue Print I’m aware of is a part of the Febi Bilstein group. I’ve never heard of ADL Blueprint.

I was recently looking round for discs and pads for my daily, a Yaris. TRW a well known very expensive solution . In the end I went for Delphi ( aka Lockheed ) discs, and EBC pads ( the latest Ultimax, eco-friendly ones ).

Added…
Febi Bilstein bought up ADL 100% some years ago, and are full owners of the Blue Print brand. As such, I’d be very surprised if Blue Print branded parts are the cheapest of the cheap bought in from anywhere that offers the lowest costs. When I’ve seen Blue Print parts mentioned elsewhere around, they seem to be mostly described in terms of decent quality, at good value prices.

Indeed, I always thought Blueprint and Firstline were comparable, both working with top tier Japanese parts manufactuers.

EBC pads are low dust :+1::+1::+1:

Times have changed you will probably get old forum member talking good things about Blueprint.I’m in contact with ADL on a daily basis through my job in the motor trade looking after warranties.ADL are still a very honest company but not the Japanese quality specialists they used to be, Febi is a good brand for things that other suppliers don’t do and dont think the Bilstein is the same Bilstein group that do the shockers it’s not…same with Bosch the quality that people remember is long gone.

Sorry just read my comment back about ADL with “buy anything that’s cheap from China” bit harsh on second reading but I would stay clear of their Brake products and Clutches.

Post deleted, wrong thread. :upside_down_face:

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tbf, looks like you’ve been caught out saying that Blue Print are cr*p when they’re not, and now you’re wriggling around wiffling and woffling… ?

Did I say they were cr*p or have you just added that bit

Just read my comment back and thought it sounded harsh when I said “anything”.I was merely saying they re box parts from China and at any point they will buy from different sources so the quality cannot be guaranteed like a company who manufacture parts e.g LUK.Sachs Boge ZF etc.

If I need parts for my 5 I contact ADL who will inform me where the parts are sourced and advise accordingly if to use on my car or if to source from elsewhere like I said a honest company whom I work closely with…do you??

On the question of Chinese parts, my Nipparts Chinese radiator has now lasted longer than the cracked Denso original Japanese radiator it replaced. The top tank still looks perfect.

Isn’t Nipparts Dutch who sell to the Asian market…

It’s hard to keep up who owns who

Its a Dutch company, but the radiator was made in China. It supplies the European market with Asian parts.

Ditto slave cylinders. Over a 25 year period, with 5 NAs along the way, I’ve been through a fair number of slave cylinders. Expensive Mazda slave cylinder give up the ghost at about 50k miles. Cheap, no-brand slave cylinders give up the ghost at 50k miles.

I’m personally not automativally opposed to Chinese made parts. Unless they’re shock absorbers.

Neither am I as long as they are branded quality parts not just sub standard unlabeled parts.

A bit like the cheap Chinese electronic stuff on eBay some people buy it never have a problem I buy stuff it never seems to work or goes faulty…