I’m 100% with you. Bought the Wagner pads for the discount/rebate and they were junk. Replaced with the gold/platinum Carquest house pads at AA (made in India) and they are GREAT pads. Low dust, good performance, long lasting and quiet.
Just warranty them every 2 years and never buy another set, right?
nah, that's a bit of a shady business. doesn't make sense why would anyone honor "lifetime" warranty on the wear item
They've already built the cost of those claims into their very inflated selling price, so I would not feel too bad.
Shady ? It's their offer and not a loophole just because brake pads are "wear items". As @The Critic said and I mentioned earlier, a) warranty replacements are already factored into the selling price of the pads and b) they know that statistically only a small % of customers follow-up on the warranty. I promise you, when you buy a 2nd set for that same vehicle, they aren't digging into the records to see if you bought pads before and will offer the warranty replacement. That's on you (us) to initiate.
Maybe i should've used a different word. Didn't mean to offend anyone, really
No one's offended, we're just saying that their overpriced parts have a lot of warranty cost built into them.
Copy that. Just finished changing the breaks and did the bed in procedure. Is a bit of a burning smell ok for the new breaks? It’s been over three years since the last time I changed them and don’t remember if it was the case last time.
You probably got them a bit hot, which is normal. It usually isn't necessary to perform an aggressive break-in on OEM type pads - the transfer layer will eventually be established.
I’ve done 3 gentle passes from 35 to 5, and touch more aggressive from 50 to 5-10. Didn’t really go crazy or anything. It’s 100F here in Texas so that probably doesn’t help
IMO just drive it with OE-type pads, no sudden or emergency stops for the first 100 miles. I do 10 stops from 20-30mph with 10-30 seconds in between to make sure all seems well.
