Quote Originally Posted by mntnbiker View Post
I'm thinking about going with good rotors again but maybe drop down to semi-metallic pads? Other than the dust, would there be another reason not to go this route? Reason being is I've been told the ceramics run hotter. It's just odd that the original OEM pads and rotors lasted for ~60k and then we can't get 15k miles out of rotors due to them warping. My wife does like to brake and I think this last warpage was due to the stop and go traffic we encountered around Atlanta coming back from spring break this year. 70 down to 0 then vice versa and all over again. I'm sure this didn't help the rotors.
Our GTP had over 43 on our original brakes, then we went to the Smokey mountains and that finished them off. The Rotors are EVERYTHING! 70 to 0 multiple times with luggage in the back is not good on the rotors. I went with Raybestos all the way around with ceramic pads and the highest quality rotor raybestos sold for the car at the time. Semi Metalic would work on your rotors less, but like you said more dust, and I think you will have to replace the pads more often than the ceramics.