I would avoid brembo pads they tend to fall to bits.
Never heard of this, Not disagreeing with you though! Can happen with any pads.
Brembo have been faultless on my Civic Type R!
A friend who has his own Garage/Workshop has fitted about 20 sets of Discs and Pads on customers cars this Year, All Brembo. Not One has returned with any issues.
The reason I know this is because when I used to be in the Motor Trade as a Manager we used to fit a lot of Pagid products but had a string of cars coming back within a few Months with customers complaining of vibration under braking. So we switched to Brembo, No more issues.
More recently over the past Year, A friend who has been a Motor Vehicle Technician for 30 Years actually had a representative come to his premises from ECP on behalf of Pagid as they insisted that the product was not at fault and suggested it was in fact incorrect fitment of the parts by my friend.
My friend also began using Brembo products which ECP also supply and so questions where raised when he rejected any Pagid products that where offered to him on the phone (
Probably because the sales team get decent commission on Pagid products at ECP)
To cut a long story short he was told that Pagid had in fact changed the Metallic properties used in the manufacturing process on their range of Brake Pads which they felt could be contributing towards the transfer of the Pad Compound onto the Discs and allowing a build up which could cause a vibration under braking over time and NOT any fault on my friends fitment.
People tend to go off their own experiences, If you have had a bad experience with Brembo then you are probably less likely to try them again. I however feel the same about Pagid, Brembo products are working well for me on my own car and my friends business also.
