Tow Vehicle Brakes

[Bob_Vaughn]

What is the best material for brake pads on a tow vehicle?

[Curly2001]

GM is making long life pads now for their trucks. I had over 135,000 miles on the OEM pads on my 2007 2500HD when I sold it. I would look at the OEM pads.
Curly

[mike_brez]

MitchF150 wrote:
I'm not exactly sure what "carbon-fiber ceramic pads" are, but that's what the PowerStop Z36 brake pad/rotor package comes with and so far after almost 3 years, they are performing great!

Zero brake dust, stops very well, have not warped the rotors like the OEM ones did after a couple of years.

Good luck! Mitch

just put the z36 on my wrangler

[Cummins12V98]

time2roll wrote:
OEM is always good. I like EBC semi-metallic.

NOT cheap but neither am I. :B

Excellent pads and rotors.

[JIMNLIN]

I frequent RV and haulers websites.
Ask the same question on a haulers web and we get about a 95 percent semi metallic shoes and pads. The biggest issue for this type of work is premature wearing out and dust. Running down the interstates every day we may make several panic brake events. With 6k-7k lbs of hitch weight in the bed and a 18k-20k+ loaded GN trailer pushing we find out quick what pad material works better.

I realize a truck that just carries a TC doesn't have this type braking issue (80k-100k miles a year) so some may find the HD semi metallic isn't needed.

[Grit_dog]

ford truck guy wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Oh and if you want to form an opinion before the real debate ensues here, there are many heated (no pun intended) brakes threads on here to brush up on your lingo and convictions ahead of time with.

MOST of those debates are directed towards the RV pads.....

And?

[time2roll]

My OEM rotors are 20 years old and 205,000 miles.

[MitchF150]

I'm not exactly sure what "carbon-fiber ceramic pads" are, but that's what the PowerStop Z36 brake pad/rotor package comes with and so far after almost 3 years, they are performing great!

Zero brake dust, stops very well, have not warped the rotors like the OEM ones did after a couple of years.

Good luck! Mitch

[ford_truck_guy]

Grit dog wrote:
Oh and if you want to form an opinion before the real debate ensues here, there are many heated (no pun intended) brakes threads on here to brush up on your lingo and convictions ahead of time with.

MOST of those debates are directed towards the RV pads.....

[Cummins12V98]

True Ceramic Are not good for truck or RV towing application. A lot of pads if you look closely are described as “ceramic like”.

Semi Metallic are great for truck and RV towing,

Expensive but best pads I have ever used for trucks EBC Orange Towing and Yellow for RV.

[time2roll]

OEM is always good. I like EBC semi-metallic.

[theoldwizard1]

Ceramic

[Grit_dog]

Oh and if you want to form an opinion before the real debate ensues here, there are many heated (no pun intended) brakes threads on here to brush up on your lingo and convictions ahead of time with.

[Grit_dog]

In Florida you could probably stick your foot out and stop Flintstone style. It’s pretty flat there.

[Grit_dog]

That’s a can of worms like asking the best oil to use.
I use almost exclusively Ceramic pads as my OCD for brake dust is stronger than my will to live coming down Wolf Creek Pass overloaded.