Brake pads POWER STOP or OEM Mazda

I ordered Centric blanks and powerstop z23 pads off of Rockauto after doing a lot of research. Have had them on my 2016 GTI for 6 months or so. No regrets, they're great. AND super cheap.

Same issue here with 2020 (standard brakes). Was driving my wife absolutely bananas. Swapped out two weeks ago with Power Stop Z23 Ceramic/Carbon pads… zero noise, good performance after they were bedded in and virtually NO DUST.

I use the z23 on all my cars including the mustang, they are better than stock and no brake dust.

I put the z23 pads and drilled and slotted rotors on my golf mk7.5 and virtually no dust.

I put carbon ceramic brakes from power stop on my C63. They were an improvement over stock and best of all no dust.

15k miles on powerstop “street sport” whatever pads with raybestos painted and coated rotors. Powerstop shoes and drums in the rear. All well so far, hardware appeared quality, pads have a little more bite than whatever was on it when I bought it.

Powerstop z23

Absolutely love em, and I abuse them, they still last

I have had great luck with the full ceramic power stop kit as well.

My AMG (I'm just a Bimmer lurker) is the same way. Performance pads and rotor slots, my brother. PowerStop has some lower dust pads.

Just had a dealer give me an estimate of $560 for new rear pads and rotors. Unfortunately, the idiot was going by mileage and he never actually looked to see that I just replaced the pads and rotors myself 10,000 miles ago. That was on my 2016 Mazda CX 5.