Brake pads Hawk Performance or OEM Audi

I just did the brakes on my Audi. Front was easy, back needed a compression tool to push the piston back and an OBDII module/app to retract the electric brakes. It’s easier than my old Nissan or the Volvo XC90 I had before the Audi.

I would stick to oem or hawk pads.

Hawk 5.0 street. Very nice stoppers they make.

They quoted me $8k for standard brakes on my RS5. Bought all the parts myself for $2600 and did it myself ????

I'd like to add brake jobs are fairly simple too. The front pads in my 2016 Q5 were the easiest of any car I've ever owned.

Hawk HPS brake pads are good to go with for daily driving.

As a good example, we were surprised to learn that the brakes were shot at just 33k miles. A quote to replace everything with OEM was insanely expensive... around $6k if I recall correctly.

Brake dust- so much brake dust.

Ditching my 2024 SQ5 for something without throttle lag and brakes that you have to press through the floor to engage. Audi says “drives as designed” and nothing they could do so I’m out.

Hawk HPS5 is ceramic and not good. The Akebonos also blow.