Recently, I replaced my stock brembo pads with Hawk Ceramics after reading a few reviews on here. Normally I would tackle the job myself but my friend is a Honda mechanic and they have the latest on car lathe(whatever its called) so I figured I would take it to him to do.

After racing motorcycles on road courses in the past and trying many different brakes I've come to be pretty familiar with braking systems, pad compounds, break in procedures, and so on. I'm very mechanically inclined and know that A LOT of good brake pads that are aggressive tend to be noisy.

But these things squel like a pig! I feel the stopping power is good and know they have a well rounded product. Anyone else experiencing this? It's only around 20 or so mph that it occurs, with slightly more pressure it disappears.

I have always been tough on braking components on everything I've ever raced or driven so I'm starting to think that might have something to do with it.

I'm considering scuffing the rotors and trying to bed them again. They were fine at first but now after about 1K miles the noise started and while I can deal with it on a racing machine, it's pretty damn annoying on a car that I drive A LOT.

Might just try something else or go back to the stockies but damn that excessive dust was driving me up the wall!

Anyone have the same issues? 07 type S with Hawk Ceramics fwiw

 

its you
or the resurfacing job
Hawk pads make a little noise and lots of dust- but not loud bothersome noise or require track day effort to use.
Take it back to the shop and have them fix the prob.
You should be doing a hi performance bedding of the pads- this method is proven
http://heeltoeauto.com/httech/YaBB.pl?num=1184261899

 

Hawk pads will make noise. Good bedding might fix some of the problems, but basically you just have to get used to it.

 

The bedding was done correctly, I know that for sure. I've done it at least 200 times on similiar braking components in the past.

Guess I'll just deal with it for now or maybe go another route and try something else.

 

was the bedding done the way described in the link?
I ran Hawk HPS on my 01TL and they made no crazy noises
Something is not right