Raybestos Pads

Grants · Post by **Grants** » November 14th, 2005, 9:55 pm

Has anyone had experience with the Raybestos "PG Plus" front disc pads? If so, are they any good?
Cheers

Grants · Post by **Grants** » November 16th, 2005, 1:28 am

Anyone even heard of them?

bulaian · Post by **bulaian** » November 16th, 2005, 8:47 am

I think i've seen them on ebay before but kind of disregarded them because i've never seen them prior to that day.

ovendenk · Post by **ovendenk** » November 16th, 2005, 9:16 am

i have raybestos (sp?) pads all around, but i can't find my packaging to tell me exactly which model pads they are. if those are the ones i have, i'm not found of them. they work really well, but there's a lot of brake dust on the inner side of the wheel all the time now. again, not 100% sure on if they are the same.

Grants · Post by **Grants** » November 16th, 2005, 2:39 pm

Thanks guys. There was some on ebay here and I'd never heard of them. Seems like they went broke some time in the past (asbestosis litigation) so I can't really put it together who they are. Just wondering if they are any good or not.
Cheers

illicitQ · Post by **illicitQ** » November 17th, 2005, 2:00 am

raybestos is a low cost brand of oem replacement brakes. they'll do the job... i think pg plus is the higher end that can take more of a beating from stop and go... this is the brand i can pick up a the local parts store (kragen)

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » November 17th, 2005, 2:20 am

thats all schucks carries around here, for years its been Raysbestos

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » November 17th, 2005, 12:30 pm

they are decent in terms of build-quality but the materials suck ballz at gripping the rotor.

I have them on my slowtege & they are sub-par at stopping the car...but installing them was easy b/c they weren't shoddily made like "wearevers" or "duralasts"

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » January 25th, 2006, 12:30 pm

To add to this thread, the previous owner of my car gave me a new set he intended to install, but ended up going to a shop with thier in house brand. So when those wore out I put the Raybestos PG Plus on my car. They SUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKK. The old cheap organic pads were better. I even thought it might be old rotors, so I replaced 3 of the 4 rotors. Didn't make a difference. I've got to get something else this spring, or I'm going to get into an accident with these pieces of s---.

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » January 25th, 2006, 9:29 pm

many believe raybestos are premium even performance-pads.

That couldn't be further from the truth. Their quality is good I guess, but think of them strictly as OEM replacement pads that will produce PLENTY of brakedust.

The PG Plus's I have on my slowtege were ORGANICS and not semi-metallics like the stupid box said. Seeing how our cars need semi-met's on the front the performance is pretty crappy with the organics.

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » January 28th, 2006, 11:48 am

Gro Harlem wrote:many believe raybestos are premium even performance-pads.

This is probably legacy thinking. In the 80's you either bought Raybestos or Bendix. Everything else was crap.