Winter is over and time for summer tires

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Genuine vs aftermarket brake pads.

For sure genuine is quieter, better stopping distance. They may even last 2-3x more than good quality aftermarket brand brake pads and therefore most likely are going to be cheaper or equal cost solution in the long run besides the better performance and less money spent changing parts.

Since my car is 20 years old I will cheap out on brake rotors, will buy aftermarket ones, front rotors will keep the same aftermarket ones that were on the car when I bought the car, since they are not warped and are not worn.

I did managed to find barely used GENUINE rear parking brake shoes with adjusters etc for less 1/10th of the price I could get them brand new, half the price of just the good aftermarket brand brake shoes. Most likely those genuine shoes will last like 20 years just as the ones that were installed from factory. If factory shoes are fine I will just use them instead, and use the ones I bought on other benzes that I have.

Years ago I had bought 2001 e320cdi benz that previous owner had replaced brake pads and rotors, with the cheapest aftermarket junk out there. The car did not brake properly, brakes were noisy and so on, discs got warped even they were really small discs compared to newer and heavier cars. I was about to change brake master cylinder and brake booster since brakes were just terrible, but before I got around do that I had bought top of the line aftermarket brand (one of those whose logos are casted into brake calipers for example) brake pads and rotors, since old rotors were warped and changing the master cylinder would have been big ordeal. Well brakes went good after that and change in stopping power was immense, totally worth it.

But most likely compounds used by car manufacturers are not the same that aftermarket uses. For some reason aftermarket compares to genuine part, not the other way around.