Who has hawkhps pads?

[Red coupe]

They are good pads, but both the front pads have had the shims slip off and begin to scrape on the rotor, I took the shims off so no real harm done other then I dont have the shims to tell me when my brake pads are getting worn out, but I was curious if this had happend to any one else.

[BadMojo]

I've only had my Hawk HPS pads for a few months now, but no issues yet. In fact, this is the first time I've ever heard of a problem like this with Hawk pads.

Why don't you email Hawk and see what they have to say? Just out of curiousity, how long have you been running them?

[Grant@tirerack]

I've had these on five vehicles now with no issues. That is not a normal situation and would be handled under warranty by Hawk.

[LiU]

that has happened to me, just took off the shim, it is only there for noise suppresant reasons.

[Red coupe]

I know but they are also there to let you know when the pads are low, Im kinda debating checking out the warrenty but I know know if its even worth it to me to go through the shipping and waiting and stuff just for the shims, they realy dont make that much noise even without the shims, I was just currious if I was the only one cause ive never heard anyone say anything bad about hawk pads...

I havent been runing them long at all maby a couple of months
Modified by Red coupe at 3:51 PM 12/15/2004

[TurboKA37]

my HPS pads have had no problems for about 2 months now. and i even removed some of the shims by accident before installing them and just pressed them back onto the back of the pads

[prior]

i had that same problem and it was getting really annoying. first time around i took the pads out and re-glued the shims to the pad.... about a month later they were doing the same thing. i just took the shims off the outer pads on the front and lubed the back of the pads real good. this took care of my problem.

[Dano]

have any one of u tried the ebc green stuff to compare the two? just curious.

-Dan (sorry for the thread highjack, but seems you that your question was answered)

[Red coupe]

no, this was the first decent brake pad ive ever even bought, as i had a crap truck before, and havent had the 240 that long.