As promised, here is a short review of these pads.The best word to describe them is -awesome-.
First thing you need to do is bed them in good...for me that took over 10 stops from 60-20MPH til I started to smell the brakes...Only after you bed them in you'll start experiencing what these pads are all about..
These pads have been a really nice update over the factory textars.
In terms of brake dust, they are crazy good.Just to give you guys a real world comparison, after 800 miles of driving on the carbotech's, I get the same amount of dust as I would have gotten after 100 miles of driving with the textars so that is a big advantage for me...not to be understood wrong...they still dust but no where near the amount the stockers do.
But the biggest advantage is the brake modulation...I am not tracking the car but even on the street the feel is way improved over stock..you can get just the right amount of braking power without activating the ABS.
As for the cold bite,honestly I haven't noticed a really big difference between these and the stock ones.I don't feel like I need to warm them up to get the best out of them...they just work well the first time.
The Bobcats are a combination of Carbon/Kevlar/Ceramic (not fully ceramic) so probably that is why they still dust a little and have better cold bite than Akebonos.
But to me, they are worth every penny of the 400$ price tag.(4.6/4.8)..3.0-4.4 are cheaper.
There you have it people...one more option beside the other pads for our X's..
One last thing that I really liked about them is the fact that the backing plate came pre-painted in red.Since I am planning to paint my calipers red, it was all good; it will give the caliper a fuller look
If you decide to order a set, and don't want the red, make sure you specify that...also you need to tell them to do the cut-outs for the brake sensors as well..
A few pictures are in order so here you have them:
Now if you excuse me, I have to go wash my car.
