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I can make a point without personal insults... because I don't have to.![[dictate]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_dictate.gif "Dictate [dictate]")
My points stand on their own. With regard to understanding and comprehension, asking questions goes a long way.
Your Point: I can't read because I stated or implied, "ceramic pads are harder on rotors".
My Point: Again... the HARDER the pad, the MORE your rotors wear. Again, this is a simple fact of physics. What will wear your rotors more? Organic or Ceramic? Will you say "Organic"?
The statement *you* made rests upon the assumption that every semi-metallic is softer than every ceramic and that there is a significant difference. Both assumptions are incorrect. Remember, there is a wide margin for compositioning, "30-65%" according your copy & paste statements from a marketing page. Knowing that we cannot simply throw physics out the window, it stands to reason that SOME Semi-Metallic pads "COULD POSSIBLY" (link) wear your rotors "A LITTLE (link)" (notice all the qualifiers yet?) more than ceramic, depending upon composition... and composition translates to... wait... wait some more... h a r d n e s s. Physics may also lend to the idea that your smoother ceramic pads simply work by converting more of the kinetic energy to heat. However, there's still a trade-off... the hotter the metal rotor, the softer it becomes. The softer it is, the quicker and easier it is to wear away... hence, why I previously mentioned changing to denser rotors as means of offsetting the additional hardness. Also to note, smoother pads regardless of hardness, produce less friction meaning, less stopping power. Again, we can't throw physics out the window. So the trade-off is that the additional stopping distance may circumstantially translate to additional wear.
If we are to completely ignore physics and say, "you can have a harder pad with less rotor wear," then it would be quite simple to develop a really hard pad... let's say 99% ceramics... that has great stopping power and provides significantly less wear on stock or run-of-the-mill density rotors. That trade-off... (that damned physics again...) says that yeah, you wouldn't wear much on the pad or the rotor... but minus the clamping force of tectonic fault line, you wouldn't stop either.
I can make a point without personal insults... because I don't have to.
My points stand on their own. With regard to understanding and comprehension, asking questions goes a long way.Your Point: I can't read because I stated or implied, "ceramic pads are harder on rotors".
My Point: Again... the HARDER the pad, the MORE your rotors wear. Again, this is a simple fact of physics. What will wear your rotors more? Organic or Ceramic? Will you say "Organic"?
The statement *you* made rests upon the assumption that every semi-metallic is softer than every ceramic and that there is a significant difference. Both assumptions are incorrect. Remember, there is a wide margin for compositioning, "30-65%" according your copy & paste statements from a marketing page. Knowing that we cannot simply throw physics out the window, it stands to reason that SOME Semi-Metallic pads "COULD POSSIBLY" (link) wear your rotors "A LITTLE (link)" (notice all the qualifiers yet?) more than ceramic, depending upon composition... and composition translates to... wait... wait some more... h a r d n e s s. Physics may also lend to the idea that your smoother ceramic pads simply work by converting more of the kinetic energy to heat. However, there's still a trade-off... the hotter the metal rotor, the softer it becomes. The softer it is, the quicker and easier it is to wear away... hence, why I previously mentioned changing to denser rotors as means of offsetting the additional hardness. Also to note, smoother pads regardless of hardness, produce less friction meaning, less stopping power. Again, we can't throw physics out the window. So the trade-off is that the additional stopping distance may circumstantially translate to additional wear.
If we are to completely ignore physics and say, "you can have a harder pad with less rotor wear," then it would be quite simple to develop a really hard pad... let's say 99% ceramics... that has great stopping power and provides significantly less wear on stock or run-of-the-mill density rotors. That trade-off... (that damned physics again...) says that yeah, you wouldn't wear much on the pad or the rotor... but minus the clamping force of tectonic fault line, you wouldn't stop either.
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