I love mine too. They took a long time to wear the coating off but it helped my previous squealing big time.
I have to do the back ones now.

 

love my napa's....i think they are like severe duty or something they were like 115 for the front and they are good...no squeaks or dust.....

 

I have the EBS Severe duty 7000 pads and EBS slotted / cross drilled rotors on all 4 corners. Have put about 40,000 miles on them. All I can say is money well spent!!! NO dust, NO squeal, and NO affiliation with EBS!!!!!

The truck just rolled 226,000 today, (2003 2500 HO 6spd)
-I'm on 3rd set of brakes
-4th set of tires
-front wheel bearings @ 170k
-NO other repairs.....just upgrades & service (oil changes etc,,,)

Tst, Smarty, super B turbo, Donaldson, AFE with modded stock air box, gauges

 

hey annabelle, my rotors are fine, i will take a pic of the pads, i bought the pads in December of 06 so i had them on my truck for 5 months i had put 3000 miles on my truck and the are done for, so i went with the OEM pads, got them for a good deal from my buddy who is a parts manager at Dodge.

 

yeah my EBC Yellow Stuff didnt last an oil change. i am gonna contact EBC as well. i have chrome wheels and due to ungodly abount of brake dust my chrome in certain areas has discolored and faded. and this fading and discoloring only happened on my front wheels, i had O.E.M brake pads on the back and my wheels look fine, no discoloring, this discoloring did not take place until i switched from O.E.M to EBC. so i will call them and see if they would be able to due something, i expect they wont do anythining but its worth a shot, maybe i can get them to pay for powder coating my wheels black, whatever, i think the compound is to soft, hence the stupid amount of brake dust, i could not keep my front wheels clean, in three days time my wheels were black, not to mention the how noisey they were, they made way more noise when the break in coating was on, and i did what there instructions said. in my opinion i would recommend against them.

 

I've got about 2500 miles on Front Yellow EBC pads, and Rear Green Pads. The Green pads in the rear have put off little to no dust. The yellow pads have put off a tremendous amount of dust, but I have not had time to clean them, so I have no way of knowing if they are still painting the wheels black. Cleaning the truck is on the list for Friday, so I'll report back on this in a week or so.

I had a little bit of squeeling in the first 200 miles, but since it has gone away. I did use High Temp anti-seize on all metal to metal contact. Braking feels relatively the same as stock. I had all 4 stock rotors turned. I drive a hand shaker, so I'm not as hard on brakes anyways. Possibly a little bit better than stock, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

I put the Green pads on all four corners of my wife's Sebring, and they have been awesome. A little bit of dust on the front, but definately a noticeable difference in stopping power.

Overall, I am not overly wowed by the pads, but I do not regret putting them on either. The big decider for me will be longevity. And hopefully it will be a long time before I can report that....

As a side note, my stock brake pads and rotors were actually in decent shape @ 30,000 miles. However they were squeeling like crazy, and would not stop no matter what I tried. THe only thing I did not do was turn the rotors to make it go away, b/c at that point it was worth replacing the pads anyways since it was all apart.

 

Heck...if just longevity was a concern...I am surprised you switched from stock. Mine lasted 120k on the front...still going on the rear.

 

It wasn't so much a concern at the time of buying them. Now it is just the decider on whether or not I'm happy with the purchase since they feel so similar to stock. If I get 10,000 miles outta them, then yes I should have bought stock. If I get 100,000, then I am happy with them. As far as people looking to buy them in the near future, I am just unable to give a definate approval/disapproval. Thats unfortunate though, b/c whenever I put something new on my truck, I hope for the 'holy stuff!', this upgrade is awesome. I didn't get that with these pads. I'm almost curious enough to buy a set of Hawk pads for the front, and throw them on to compare and see if there is a huge difference. However, I'm guessing that upgrading the rotors would probably help a lot too, but thats a lot more green than I want to throw down when my stock rotors still have many miles left on them.

 

I used Hawk HPS pads on old Durango w/power slot rotors, worked great!!

 

I have the same set-up as you do..I will post pictures of the rotors all stressed cracked after 17k miles. I am VERY hard on brakes and waiting for the Hawks to be released. The EBC are garbage compared to the Hawks which I currently use on my other vehicles.

Richard

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