Originally Posted by DZeckhausen

Actually, Axxis Deluxe is no less a "true ceramic" pad than Hawk Performance Ceramic, Centric Posi-Quiet Ceramic, or Akebono ProAct Ceramic. Ceramic is simply one of up to 40 ingredients in the mix of particles that goes into a friction compound and makes up from 1 to 5 percent of the total volume. It is not, as some marketers would like to make us believe, a pad carved from a solid block of ceramic. And there's nothing about the word Ceramic in the name of the pad (or on the box) that tells you anything about how the pad is going to perform. Yet people call me all the time asking for "ceramic" pads, as if that tells me anything about what they are really looking for in terms of their ideal mix of performance characteristics...