Where can I purchase OEM pads for the best price? I need new fronts and rears. I have had good luck with the OEM Ford pads. Is there any reason I should change?

 

The new ones are so soft, the dust in intolerable. Took mine off at 11,000 miles and put on Wagner Thermo Quiets. They have been just great. Also, CarQuest Blues get a lot of compliments on here. I would never go back to OEM.

 

I got OEM for my 2002, they work great for me. Little dust, quiet, work great and all around make a fool of the ones I had on from Napa. I think it is just the pads for the 04+ trucks are the ones with dust problems.

 

My OEM pads lasted quite a while, maybe 70k km's and were pretty decent in my opinion. The new truck OEM pads appear horrible, so wtf is goin' on with that, I dunno. The original pads had a normal amount of dust and performed well. I personally suggest going semi-metallic Raybestos (Carquest ones are made by them and light Ford blue in color), Wagner Thermoquiet semi-metallics, or really anything semi-metallics, Bendix etc. Going ceramics is like rolling dice, I don't suggest them. The Carquest semi-metallics I have give off so little dust, you'd hardly notice even after weeks of city driving.