Brake pads Hawk Performance or OEM Mercedes

For street manners but still functional for autocross purposes I liked the Hawk HPS 5.0.

I run Hawk HPS which have reduced dust as compared to the factory OE Brembo pads. They are quiet enough too.

Hawk HP 5.0 was a decent enough upgrade for my tuned S5 and still perfectly fine for street use for my first few track days.

HAWK HPS 5.0 on mine currently - no complaints. Keeps the Linear pedal feel (doesnt bite hard in the beginning then dies out if that makes sense) and stops much better than the OEMs. It does dust a bit but nothing crazy.

my strategy when I started to run into a similar type of problem (brake pads disintegrating and eating my budget) was to go to endurance race pads - for me the Hawk ER1 pads seem to be working well.

I use Hawk Blue pads, they brake great and don't wear out.

Hawk pads brake great but they will eat your rotors and they are some of the dustiest pads.

I recently switched to DTC-60 for my first full on race pad. Worked fine for my turbo car except my calipers got crazy hot.

I changed out the oem and ran Hawks for a while, braking distance wan't much difference but the brake dust was terrible, Rims where dirty all of the time.

Hawk 5.0 were squeaky as hell.