When you deal with modern disc brakes, you get several options on pad friction material types and how they affect brake performance of your JK Wrangler. In this article we’ll take a look at some of the more popular friction materials and how they affect brake performance, dust, and noise. We'll also look into the two types of ways to hold the friction material to the backing plate.

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Being still new, I have yet to worry about my brake pads. So far, I am very happy with the OEM's in every condition. What exactly do we have that come with the Wrangler out of the factory?
On all my previous vehicles, I have replaced my 1st set of brakes with supposed OEM, but never am happy with the results. Just curious if anyone has recommendations for exact replacement without going to the stealership.

 

This is just how I'm going to do things but once mine gets delivered, I'm going to run the stock pads fairly hard for 1,000 miles or so then swap both front and rear pads out for Hawks.