Went to the stealership today becuase my 2004 Kodiak 450 brakes are about gone. They grab a set of front and rear and ring up my order $80 and change! Are you kidding me for those little brake pads?

So looking at the Ebay brake pads for $38 for an entire set and some that sell individually (front/rear) for between $9 and $20.

Anyone buy the Ebay brake pad options out there? Are they any good, what should I look for or avoid? Recommend any particular sellers? Or do you recommend ordering them somewhere else?


FYI - I also noticed the Ebay ones show they fit a wide variety of ATV's including some Honda's, Suzuki's, Polaris.... Wonder if I just took one of those other models and said I needed pads for them if it would be cheaper?

Help me out, becuase the wife will kill me if I spend $80 on brake pads for one ATV - we have 5 including hers and the kids bikes.

 

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P.S. I would reccomend the EBC pads they seem to hold up the best! Hope this helps with the wife [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Don't go cheap on pads, that cheap are organic pads and will go to hell in a heartbeat. Spend the money and get a good set of pads. It costs me about $70 to put new decent pads on my Warrior all the way around.

 

The best ones are the sintered metallic pads, they are copper colored,and last a lot longer, like beefy said, the standard organic ones are for the mini quads, my son went through a set of rear organic pads in one race !! wore them right down to the backing plates, and that was on a little 300ex.

 

Some of the $38 pads on Ebay state they are Sintered metallic pads? Will give Rocky Mnt. a shot, I ordered my Maxxis BigHorns from them and paid I think $299 shipped. Good deal.

So no one with experience with the Ebay sintered pads?

 

I have bought several sets from ebay, as long as they say sintered, they are good,I have never gotten an organic set after the bad performance I saw from my 300ex.

 

Cheap brakes, 30 bucks.

New bumper, 120 bucks.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Scootergptx

Cheap brakes, 30 bucks.

New bumper, 120 bucks.</end quote></div>


Is that from experience with cheap brakes not working well, or just general consesus? Asking becuase I've talked to several people now and they all seem to say the same, but non have actually used the cheaper sintered metal brakes and just assume they are crud - other than 95wolv. Good to have some personal experience.

 

$53 from these guys.

$33 for Rears

$20 for the fronts.

 

Not a bad price if they are OEM Yamaha pads.