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Ok more awesome questions...

I'm going to order some Hawk HPS because of the posts I've been browsing though, does it really matter what Rotors I go with or can I just replace with OE?

Also is it necessary to do front and back, or can I just do front for now and back at a later time?
 
Moe Dubs said:
Ok more awesome questions...

I'm going to order some Hawk HPS because of the posts I've been browsing though, does it really matter what Rotors I go with or can I just replace with OE?

Also is it necessary to do front and back, or can I just do front for now and back at a later time?
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Front are going to be more important since it's fwd. Granted the rears still have some life you'll be fine. Oem rotors seem to be the best as far as not warping so I recommend them over most over the counters rotors you'll buy at advance.
 


Thank you! I'll call local dealer for price on OE rotors, then check Napa since their website won't give up a price.
 
Delco offers the following:

OE (Best)

Durastop (Decent)

Advantage. (stay away)

You want OE. Sadly the most expensive as well.
 
Op, I see snow on your car. I found that living in a high road salt region that my rotors all developed rust bands (doughnut shaped) that kept growing resulting in less and less pad contact. The solution was to change to ceramic pads. I had to do this on 4 vehicles (3 GMs and a 1.5 year old Nissan truck)
 
I live in Northern BC, it seems like its Winter for more than 1/2 the year here. Will be going with Ceramics, glad I didn't place my order yet.
 


So I like to put stuff off, I finally changed my pads and rotors. Didnt think it had gone on this long without doing it, lol. I would post before and afters but I forgot my photobucket password. Inner pad on passender side grinded up the rotor pretty good, ended up getting monroe brakes with napa rotors. No more grind, no more wobble
 
got rid of ceramics cause they kept eating rotors also had more stopping power with semi metallics my personal experience (do have a lot of brake dust tho)
 
If set up properly and of good quality, ceramics won't make a huge difference in rotor longevity, maybe it was the rotors you paired them with.
 
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