Largo and I determined that my mom's maroon pathfinder of power (go alliteration!) needs new brake pads up front. I dislike replacing things with stock parts when upgrades exist, so I did a bit of searching and found that Axxis makes two types of pads for the Pathfinder- Axxis Ultimates and Axxis Metal Masters. http://data.nissanpartstore.com/part...npartstore.com

My question is this: which one should I go with? I want the one with better stopping power, but it there's excessive noise, need for warm-up, and other street-unfriendliness involved, I have to go with the wussier pad.

Oh, yeah, second question: Where can I get these things locally?

 

Ultimates will destroy the rotors from what i have heard. but have great cold grip.

MM need to be wwarmed up, but are pretty good. also look in to the green stuff pads.

 

dont use metal masters... they dust something fierce. try to find something w/ a ceramic/metallic pad. i suppose the ultimates would be better than the MM's

 

bendix ceramic

 

Since both the Metal Masters and the Ultimates were shot down in this thread, I did some googling on these, but didn't find much. These are the high-end pads at Autozone, right? What kind of improvement from stock would I be looking at? I've found Brembo rotors at nopionline for 35 each so I'll be replacing those; other than the Axxis pads and the OE replacements the only pads tirerack listed were Hawk race pads, so it's down to the Bendix pads.

 

napa Cermix IMO...
Bendix pads seem to be quite aggressive on rotors although pretty decent.

 

agreed on the MM they make more dust than anything out there.