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Life Expectancy Of Shimano Sintered Pads?
My Shimano L04C Pads (for 105 R7070 brake calipers) have lasted 1,300 miles, 62 rides. I fitted them at the same time as Ultegra Ice Tech rotors.
Is that a "normal" wear rate for these pads? They've got to 1mm thickness.
I do live in a hilly part of the UK, so it's either ascending or descending when I ride.
Am I right in thinking Sintered should last longer than Resin pads?
If the wear rate is above average, can you recommend a more hard wearing set of pads from another company?
Thank you.
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I don't know about harder wearing, but Wiggle do their own (Prime brand) sets of pad:
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/prime-shimano-road-disc-brake-pads
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/prime-shimano-road-disc-brake-pads-carbon
I've been running a pair of the carbon pads on the front since earlier this year (the Shimano's were out of stock) and they seem to work okay although they don't have the cooling fins (which looks a bit off) and they're a little bit juddery at low speed (i.e. coming to a stop).
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll take a look.
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the Shimano K04S and Shimano K04Ti pads?
Is the Ti version just more expensive, comes with a lighter weight backing plate with better heat dispersion, but the pad material is exactly the same as the K04S?
Thank you.
Same compound. The middle number relates to the pad compound type.
Thank you.
You're right in thinking sintered last longer than resin - and that could well be a typical wear rate for your use case.
The L04C start at 2mm and are good down to 0.5mm, so you could maybe get another 600 miles out of them.
If your descents are not that long, you could probably get away with the non-finned pads, which are cheaper. Particularly over winter when it's cold anyway.
I'm not aware of a harder compound pad, but anything harder is likely to make more noise, cause greater wear to the rotors and result in less powerful braking.
https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/shimano105-r7000/BR-R70...
Great stuff, thank you very much 👍
I'll look into getting the non-finned version.