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So I’ve had my truck for literally 9 days it is used. My rims were dark grey in a matter of 400 miles. I am not hard on the brakes. Wondering if this is common or someone did a brake job with cheap pads? Or did the dealers massive amounts of tire shine just catch all the dust.
Yes the stock pads dust really badly. Especially the fronts. I have had my 2021 less than 3 months but planning on swapping out the pads to something that dusts less.
That was my next question our other vehicles have come with ceramic pads and seem to dust less. Any insight or reasons they don’t do good on the super duty? I’ll have to look up the green pads mentioned I never heard of them.
I just changed the pads on my 2020 and I only have 1,900 miles. I left the factory rotors and installed Powerstop extreme truck and tow carbon ceramic pads front and rear. Since I installed them I can say the dust has been cut down 90-95%. I have aftermarket wheels on my dually and didn’t want to deal with having to clean them constantly.
F250 and up come with Semi Metallic pads OE. In a nutshell metallic pads are more aggressive and less prone to fade. Ceramics are cleaner but can fade under heavy use, trailer towing, mountains. After initial break in your oe metallics should dust less. Akebono does offer a ceramic pad for the new Fords. I work(ed) for OE and Aftermarket manufacturer, Aftermarket Wholesale, Management, and Retail. Close to retirement. Our main supplier offers several grades of semi metallic, no ceramic yet. I run top tier ceramics on my 01 with no problems but I am a flatlander with occasional trailer towing. Be aware that there are many many formulations of pad material within each category. People ask me: how much are your brake pads? my usual response is: how fast do you want to stop?
Just finally swapped out the OEM brakes on my 2018, at 89k miles. They've been producing so much dust since I've owned the truck (typically within 3-5 days of washing my truck the wheels are coated). Now on powerstop extreme ceramic pads and rotors after nearly 3 weeks almost zero dust. I'm 100% sold on them just for dust, but braking is also much better.
