Brake pads Hawk Performance or OEM Volkswagen

I have 150+k on my MK7.5 GTi. I’ve run Hawk pads and rotors since the OEM brakes came off. They are great. Fronts are slotted and drilled, rears are slotted, no noise, brake dust isn’t bad.

Using hawk ceramic on mine. Seem alright for the street use I do. Way less dust than OEM.

Hawk Performance PC, they work very well and hardly any dust. Just a little squeaky when cold tho.

Then replace the pads with Hawk performance ceramic pads.

I'd go for either Hawk HPS 5.0

After researching, I'm going to go for the Hawk HPS 5.0 next time I go to the track or wear my current ones down. From what I've read, it's a comparable to the oem feel, but produces less dust, which sounds really nice for my occasional trip to the track and for keeping my wheels clean.

My rear breaks also wore out faster. I just had them replaced (1 month outside the extended warranty lmao kms) at 27k km.

The rear brakes did fail earlier than I would've hoped at 26,000 miles, but this is a known issue.

Only issues have been the insanely squeaky brakes, the sound quality on the speakers in the cold and crappy wipers.

I'm convinced the MK6 just has shitty brakes (I mean they do stop but I think they're just bad). I've had 2 of them and they both wear unevenly, hang up, or just in general wear out too quickly.