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Originally Posted by 335dFan
You know, I don't get it with this brake dust business. Many posters talk about too much brake dust with their OEM pads (I think). I am at 43k, am on the first set of pads with plenty of pad left, and experience little to no brake dust. I must admit that I am the type of driver that actually doesn't use the brakes all that much because of the way I drive, but even when I go to the track and use the brakes a lot and hard I don't see that much brake dust.
What gives?
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I think this depends a lot on the driver. My stock rear pads wore down only 1 mm over 50k miles. I noticed a little dust but not very much. If I was the type of driver that used up the entire pad in that many miles I would probably think the pads were pretty heavy dusting.