Pagid PBR vs. MetalMasters - opinions please?

["Aaron Bohnen" <bohnen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on getting a great brake pad for the E32 brakes on my E28. Can 
you say "Rob Levinson Big Brakes... URAH!" ?

I have OE Jurids on there now - ok, but dusty and also not the world's 
grippiest pads by a long shot.

I plan to change them up to better pads. I went down to the local places in 
town and I can get regular Pagids, more Jurids (why bother?), any number of 
cheesy Wagner, Raybestos, etc. junk as well as the MetalMasters and the 
Deluxes formerly sold under the Repco brand name.

The local Lordco auto parts guys say that the company that actually makes 
the MetalMaster and Deluxe pads is not Repco or Axxis - that these are only 
the distributors. He claims that the manufacturer is a company called PBR.

So I wonder, does this mean there is some connection between the supposedly 
very good Pagid "PBR" series pads and the PBR company that makes 
MetalMasters?

Or is all of this horse-hooey?

And while we're on the topic - does anyone have any personal experience 
they'd like to share with the Pagid "PBR" series pads?

My neighbour (a lowered full-size pickup guy) swears by his carbon fibre 
brake pads. Any of these worth considering?

Many thanks,

Aaron

p.s. - (and this was the topic of another post) - does anyone know of any 
good mail order parts places in Canada? $CDN stinks right now... :<
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Aaron Bohnen                     email: bohnen@domain.elided
- -Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering Department, U.B.C.
- -Technicraft Engineering Services

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