NAPA brake recommendations?

It's about time for me to do my first brake job on Muky, and looking
at NAPA Online it looks like they carry 4 different grades of brake
pads: (in order from least to most expensive) Tru-Stop, Safety Stop,
AE, and AE Severe Duty Metallic. Anybody have a recommendation, or any
reason why not to go with the cheapies?

Also, I think I've read Mike say in the past that when it comes to
bonded vs. riveted, riveted is the way to go. Correct?


I'm thinking that full metallic or ceramic is waaaaay overkill...

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Garth Almgren wrote:
> It's about time for me to do my first brake job on Muky, and looking
> at NAPA Online it looks like they carry 4 different grades of brake
> pads: (in order from least to most expensive) Tru-Stop, Safety Stop,
> AE, and AE Severe Duty Metallic. Anybody have a recommendation, or any
> reason why not to go with the cheapies?
>
> Also, I think I've read Mike say in the past that when it comes to
> bonded vs. riveted, riveted is the way to go. Correct?
>
>
> I'm thinking that full metallic or ceramic is waaaaay overkill...

All depends on how aggressive you drive. And with gas prices these
days I'm driving about as aggressively as an anemic slug.

I currently use the Safety Stop, replaced some worn out Performance
Friction Carbon/Metallic (which I could no longer find) and quite
frankly I think they stop just as well. A bit squeaky, but that
is my fault for not putting enough stop-squeak on the back of the
pads. Got to take them off and fix that one day.

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Autozone has a system like this, and the next-to-most expensive have a
lifetime guarantee, while the most expensive only have a year. I got the
next-to-most expensive because the price jump was pretty big too. Of
course, realize that lifetime pads doesn't cover disks wearing out. I
wouldn't get the cheapies, especially considering that it is NAPA, but #2 or
#3 is probably a good deal. I didn't have a scientific rationale, just what
I was prepared to pay and what I expected to get for that. Now if you're
racing that 2.5, and wearing out pads faster than once a year, then maybe
you qualify for the Severe Duty product.

Earle

"Garth Almgren" > wrote in message
...
> It's about time for me to do my first brake job on Muky, and looking
> at NAPA Online it looks like they carry 4 different grades of brake
> pads: (in order from least to most expensive) Tru-Stop, Safety Stop,
> AE, and AE Severe Duty Metallic. Anybody have a recommendation, or any
> reason why not to go with the cheapies?
>
> Also, I think I've read Mike say in the past that when it comes to
> bonded vs. riveted, riveted is the way to go. Correct?
>
>
> I'm thinking that full metallic or ceramic is waaaaay overkill...
>
> --
> ~/Garth - 1993 Wrangler S 2.5
> { }|||||||{ } "MukYJ"

Around 3/12/2008 6:45 PM, Earle Horton wrote:

> Autozone has a system like this, and the next-to-most expensive have a
> lifetime guarantee, while the most expensive only have a year. I got
> the next-to-most expensive because the price jump was pretty big too.
> Of course, realize that lifetime pads doesn't cover disks wearing out.
> I wouldn't get the cheapies, especially considering that it is NAPA, but
> #2 or #3 is probably a good deal. I didn't have a scientific rationale,
> just what I was prepared to pay and what I expected to get for that.
> Now if you're racing that 2.5, and wearing out pads faster than once a
> year, then maybe you qualify for the Severe Duty product.
>
> Earle


LOL! No racing for this 4-banger: although I do like to get briskly up
to speed, I usually take my time when stopping.

Autozone is fairly new in Washington, and up until the last couple years
the only choices were either Shucks (aka Kragen, aka Checker) or NAPA.
Given a choice between the two, NAPA wins hands down. I'll check
Autozone out too though.


> "Garth Almgren" > wrote in message
> ...
>> It's about time for me to do my first brake job on Muky, and looking
>> at NAPA Online it looks like they carry 4 different grades of brake
>> pads: (in order from least to most expensive) Tru-Stop, Safety Stop,
>> AE, and AE Severe Duty Metallic. Anybody have a recommendation, or any
>> reason why not to go with the cheapies?
>>
>> Also, I think I've read Mike say in the past that when it comes to
>> bonded vs. riveted, riveted is the way to go. Correct?


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~/Garth - 1993 Wrangler S 2.5
{ }|||||||{ } "MukYJ"