Macan S brake dust is out of control, any better pad options?

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Joined:: 04/11/2026

United Arab Emirates

[font=quote-cjk-patch, Inter, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif][color=#0f1115][size=3]Had my 2020 Macan S for about eight months now and I absolutely love driving it up to Hatta on the weekends but I swear I spend more time cleaning those stupid 20 inch Spyder wheels than I do actually enjoying the car because the factory pads just coat everything in this thick black film like two days after a wash and it bakes on so hard I'm practically using a chisel to get it off the barrels, a friend of mine with a 911 mentioned he swapped over to some ceramic compound pads that cut the dust down by like eighty percent and honestly that sounds like a dream but then I start reading all these forum horror stories about reduced bite when they're cold or that weird grainy pedal feel and I'm not trying to ruin the driving experience just to keep the wheels clean you know, I was poking around online trying to see if there's a middle ground maybe something from Textar or Pagid that doesn't cost a small fortune and I stumbled onto a few local places that advertise themselves as Porsche premium brake pad replacement specialists which at least sounds like they'd know the difference between a set of pads that'll squeal like a stuck pig on a PDK car versus ones that actually work properly in this heat, anyway just wondering if anyone with a Macan or even a Cayenne has made the switch to something lower dust and if they regret it or if it's genuinely the best mod you can do when you're tired of your wheels looking like they belong on a diesel truck.[/font][/size][/color]

Patrick Reed

#1 • 04/11/2026 at 10:20 AM

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