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Aura needs new brakes
I come to find that my XR needs new brakes in the rear. As with every Saturn I've owned (I had 3, my family had...I think we were up to 7), the brakes from the factory were complete rubbish. The odd thing about the Aura's brakes is that the pads only seem to contact the lower half of the rear rotors, the upper half is a rust ring indicating no pad contact at all. I've had the dealership service the brakes 3 times since getting the car, it is now out of warranty.
At any rate, I like the Hawk HPS on my SL2, they were a bit better than the EBC Greenstuff I used to run, the EBC's were excellent pads too. I find that Hawk makes both HPS and Performance Ceramics for the Aura (probably from the G6's). I have no experience with the ceramics but wonder if they're worth the extra $10 over the HPS? Any suggestions. I was also thinking about swapping in some Powerslot rotors since I'm not happy with the rust rings on the rears and usually replace rotors rather than cut them.
(BTW, the fronts are fine but I'd probably will replace them too)
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