Product Information

Let's face it, brakes pads hands down are the most important components of our vehicle. Our brake pads allow us to stop our vehicles with a simple push of a brake pedal. Essentially brake pads convert the kinetic energy of the vehicle to thermal energy through friction. Unfortunately, they don't last forever and are considered to be a major wear item that must be replaced before they completely wear out and damage the brake rotor costing you more in repairs. Brake pads can be made of several materials such as a semi-metallic compound, ceramic compound, or organic. Brake pads are suggested to be checked frequently during oil changes or routine services for wear to ensure you have at least the minimum pad thickness as stated by the car manufacturer.

• Pulsating
• Grinding
• Squeaking
• Rotor Glazing
• Rotor Hot spots
• A noticeable lip on the rotors outer edge

TRW Premium OE Formulated Brake Pads

The TRW Premium brake pads are designed and manufacturing to original equipment specifications, assuring superior quality and fit.

TRW has introduced Cotec - an innovative coating for its brake pads. Independent tests have proven that Cotec achieves significantly shorter stopping distances than the brake pads of major competitors or even OE, for the first stops after leaving a garage following a brake pad change.

In the normal bedding in process there is a period, known as the green behavior of the pad, which occurs at the start of the bedding in process where the friction co-efficient is lower than usual. Drivers can find it difficult to adjust to the difference in performance during these first stops. TRW Cotec brake pads address this issue by improving the contact between the brake disc and pad.

The friction material is the most important part of a brake pad. All TRW’s brake pads contain the optimum mix of raw materials from rubber to graphite. TRW has made a significant investment over the years to ensure that we have the perfect mix - and we make it in-house. The ingredients ensure a stable friction coefficient and the safest braking performance in all temperatures, at all speeds and under all conditions.

The backing plates used by TRW are designed, patented and produced in-house to OE specification. They are fitted to the friction material with a unique adhesive compound which can withstand high temperatures and resists extremely high shear strengths.

TRW places great emphasis on noise reduction and its brake pads are fitted with high quality shims which act as a damper between the friction material and the brake caliper. TRW friction components are not only tested in our NVH (noise vibration harshness) laboratories and also on the road.

Features and Benefits:

• OE-Equivalent and Direct Fit application.
• Include the OE specified shims.
• Low noise and reduced vibrations.
• Formulated to OE Specifications.
• Superior friction qualities.
• Organic blended compound.

TRW Automotive

TRW is one of the world’s leading providers of Original Equipment chassis systems. TRW now manufactures one quarter of the world’s chassis components - leading the market in the design, development, manufacture and integration of chassis systems for passenger cars.

With over 40 vehicle manufacturers as customers, TRW’s Original Equipment business has to be able to adapt its technologies to the demands of very different vehicles, from the most basic in developing countries to some of the most sophisticated vehicle systems in the world.

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