They're tried and tested by most of the community including me. They have great bite for street and spirited driving with virtually no brake dust and minimal noise.
Power Stop Z26-687A Extreme Performance Brake Pad
EBC Extra Duty pads. Noticeably better then the Akebonos they replaced.
I've been using powerstop track day spec pads for 5 years and aside from crazy brake dust they are the ultimate bang for buck.
I use powerstop z26 extreme pads and rotors. My car stops on a dime
I upgraded to gx460 brakes on mine and did power stop rotors and pads. Very happy with the performance. Mountain driving while fully loaded is worry free now.
I went with Hella/Pagid stock rotors. EBC red stuff pads. All the difference. That's all it took. And there is noticeably less dust on the alloys.
I too used Power Stop pads on my BMW and I'm happy with them. Available from Amazon and very reasonably priced.
It’s very easy to replace the pads diy in Brembos. I used the powerstop z26 as well. But the fronts squealed something awful (started at like 10k) on low mph slow deceleration and the brake dust on the stock pads suck.
I recently changed the brakes on my MK7.5 Non PP GTI, I chose EBC Redstuff for the disks and pads. I have bedded them in and driven a bit over this per the manual, for the first few weeks I didn't have any issues and they are a lot grabbier than the OEM ones. But with some recent spirited driving, I found that these pads under light to heavy breaking on the front get cooked in less than a mile. Ended up coming to a corner and the pedal was firm, then it wasn't and it was squirming about and not slowing. Getting out of the vehicle I found the pads were smoking really badly as well the heat coming off them had turned the disks blue on the front, while the rears were warm, but nowhere near as bad as the front. The OEM pads took way more abuse, even then they would just judder when they go too hot and never fadded or gave the same symptoms.
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