Performance Brake Pads

Everyday driving presents a variety of challenges. Whether you are dropping the kids off at school, heading to the grocery store, on your way to the big game or race, commuting to and from work, or taking the family on a cross-country vacation, Safety and Reliability is what you can expect from Akebono Ultra-Premium and Premium brake products and remanufactured loaded calipers.

Choose Akebono's advanced friction technology, which is approved more and more by the auto manufacturer's every year, in order to restore or upgrade your brake system performance to the ultimate level. Akebono's advanced friction is available in every Pro-ACT, EURO and Akebono Performance Ultra-Premium brake pad kit.
- Are the OEM Brand of Choice
- Will restore vehicle braking performance to its ideal and optimal specifications
- Provide safe, quiet, clean and dependable braking
- Utilizes Rotor Friendly pad formulations that prevent rotor thickness variation and pedal pulsation complaints
Akebono knows that owners of European vehicles have a particular passion for the performance standards and design aesthetics that are unique to European makes. Most drivers of European vehicles seek a driving experience using vehicle-handling techniques that are focused almost entirely on braking. The Akebono Euro brake pad line successfully addresses performance-specific requirements of European makes, providing vehicle control and response as the manufacturer intended. Additionally, Akebono EURO brake pads are developed to fit precisely to each vehicle and are formulated specifically to optimize cleanliness and rotor compatibility.

Pro-ACT brake pads provide the ultimate braking experience and restores each vehicle to brand new performance levels or better. With Akebono Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium product line, most customers will receive OE-quality replacements because Akebono is the Original Equipment Manufacturer for many popular domestic and Japanese vehicles. For all other makes, you will actually experience an upgrade from the conventional pads.

Akebono's Performance Ultra-Premium brake pads offer braking power for drivers who have one thing in mind - performance. Made of the highest quality long-lasting material, these pads are ideal for the spirited driver who pushes a vehicle to its limit. Whether for intense driving, light trucks, SUVs, or even law enforcement vehicles, Akebono Performance brakes can handle the job and outperform the competition. For the smoothest, cleanest, quietest braking experience... install Akebono Performance Ultra-Premium Pads.
Pro-ACT™
- Clean Wheels
- Extremely Rotor-Friendly for Longer Rotor Life
- Ultra-Quiet: Definitive Control of Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
- Unrivaled Initial Effectiveness with No Required Break-In
- Ultimate Upgrade for OE Semi-Metallic and Low-Metallic Brake Pads
- Vehicle-Optimized Ceramic Formulas for Superior Performance
Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium brake pads deliver exceptional performance to ensure that your vehicle will stop like new.

Akebono Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium brake pads utilize the aftermarket’s only OE-validated, application-specific friction formulations. This guarantees that Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium brake pads provide the ultimate braking experience – to brand new performance levels or even better.

With the Akebono Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium product line, all customers will receive OE-quality replacements because Akebono is the Original Equipment Manufacturer for most popular domestic and Japanese vehicles.
NVH Expertise

Akebono Ceramic Technology truly solves NVH problems in the aftermarket. Akebono Ceramic Pads are specified as original equipment for most top-selling domestic and import vehicles sold in North America. In fact, Pro-ACT pads feature the aftermarket’s only OE-validated, application-specific friction formulations. This results in superior braking performance.

Akebono has engineered hundreds of unique ceramic friction formulations for controlling and/or eliminating brake NVH issues. A typical Akebono ceramic friction pad contains an average of 20 raw ingredients, all of which are essential to the elimination of NVH. Conventional friction formulations may contain no more than eight, falling far short of any NVH control capability. Each Akebono pad application features carefully engineered, scientifically applied chamfers and slots to reduce and/or eliminate noise. Precision-fit shims are also incorporated into the design to eliminate noise and deliver ultra-quiet, smooth braking performance.

Benefits
At Akebono, precision performance is built on advanced technology and industry-leading engineering. Engineered from the start to eliminate noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), Pro-ACT Disc Brake Pads provide the ultimate braking experience.

Ceramic Brake Pads provide:
- Increased stopping power in critical braking situations
- Improved pad wear performance over conventional disc pads
- Reduced rotor wear by as much as 80 percent
- Unrivaled in initial effectiveness with no break-in required
- Ultra-quiet, positive, smooth braking performance
- High resistance to fade with fast recovery
- More consistent pedal feel
- Rotor-friendly pad formulations
- Enhanced durability and life
- Low dusting and precision fit
All of this provides superior vehicle control, driver comfort and safety over a wide range of driving conditions – maximizing driver confidence.
Designed For Your Vehicle
For replacement brake pads that are designed for your vehicle, trust the name that manufacturers trust - Akebono Pro-ACT™ Ultra-Premium brake pads. Manufactured from carefully selected materials designed to help minimize and/or virtually eliminate unwanted brake dust, Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium brake pads provide consistent, smooth stopping power across a wide range of driving conditions, including panic stops.

Engineered to eliminate noise, vibration, and harshness, Pro-ACT Ceramic Disc Brake Pads provide the ultimate braking experience. The best replacement for restoring OE ceramic pad performance, Pro-ACT Ceramic Disc Pads are also ideal for upgrading from conventional pads.

In addition to dramatically quieter braking, Pro-ACT Ceramic Pads provide best-in-class braking performance, including enhanced initial effectiveness (no break-in required), high resistance to fade, consistent brake pedal feel, and ultra-low dusting for cleaner wheels and tires. Akebono’s ceramic technology also causes minimal wear on brake rotors.
- Virtually eliminates noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH)
- Vehicle-optimized ceramic formulas for superior performance
- Unrivaled stopping power
- Clean wheels
- No break-in required
- Rotor-friendly with proven longer rotor life
- Perfect upgrade for all braking systems
- 100 percent made in the USA
Akebono has expanded Pro-ACT brake pad coverage to include virtually all popular late-model domestic and Asian vehicles. Avoid brake noise and get smooth, secure braking performance in the following: Acura, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Eagle, Ford, GM, Geo, Honda, Infiniti, Isuzu, Lexus, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac, Saturn, Subaru, Toyota. Experience quiet braking, superior brake fade and recovery performance, more consistent vehicle brake system response, reduced pedal effort and low dusting.

Akebono’s Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium brand products are environmentally friendly and adhere to the low copper requirements under California and Washington restrictions.
Performance™
- Clean Wheels
- Enchanced Braking Power
- Extremely Rotor-Friendly for Longer Rotor Life
- Ultra-Quiet: Definitive Control of Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
- Ultimate Upgrade for OE Semi-Metallic and Low-Metallic Brake Pads
- Friction Formulas Specially Designed for Fleet Vehicles
Akebono's Performance Ultra-Premium: The Extreme Performance Brake Pad

Akebono’s Performance Ultra-Premium brake pads offer braking power for drivers who have one thing in mind - performance.

Made of the highest quality long-lasting material, these pads are ideal for the spirited driver who pushes a vehicle to its limit. Whether for intense driving, light trucks, SUVs, or even law enforcement vehicles, Akebono Performance brakes can handle the job and outperform the competition.

For the smoothest, cleanest, quietest braking experience... install Akebono Performance Ultra-Premium brake pads.
Maximum Friction For Peak Stopping Power

Engineered to withstand even the most punishing treatment, Akebono Performance® Ultra-Premium ceramic brake pads deliver ideal stopping power in extreme conditions and are 100 percent made in the USA. For performance enthusiasts, light trucks, SUVs, fleets, or law enforcement vehicles, you can count on the Akebono Performance line to safely and smoothly stop your vehicles.

Like all Akebono brake pads, the Akebono Performance line delivers definitive control of noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) and offers the ultimate upgrade for semi-metallic and low-metallic brake pads. Akebono Performance Ultra-Premium brake pads are made from a proprietary mix of unique ceramic formulations for maximum friction and rotor compatibility. You get longer rotor life and cleaner wheels with less brake dust. To assure optimum performance, distinct designs have been developed for each vehicle model, resulting in a precise fit that virtually eliminates brake squealing, groaning and vibration.

Akebono Performance Ultra-Premium brake pads are ideally suited for light trucks and SUVs that need additional braking force for challenges such as towing boats, trailers, campers and equipment. In addition, their performance engineering provides reliable stopping power, with friction formulas that are specially designed for law enforcement vehicles and any fleet that will be driven to its limits.

Performance vehicles demand even greater safety and durability in their brake pads, and Akebono delivers the peak braking control that can make all the difference. Trust the originators of Akebono Ceramic Technology® when rough roads lie ahead.

Performance Ultra-Premium brand products are environmentally friendly and adhere to the low copper requirements under California and Washington restrictions.
EURO™
- Clean Wheels
- Ultra-Quiet: Definitive Control of Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
- Extremely Rotor-Friendly for Longer Rotor Life
- European Braking Performance with Enchanced Pedal Feel
- Ultimate Upgrade for OE Semi-Metallic and Low-Metallic Brake Pads
- Friction Formulas Specially Designed for European Vehicles
EURO Ultra-Premium brake pads provide exactly the ideal vehicle control and response performance intended by the manufacturers of European makes.

European car owners across North America now have a brake pad solution that will keep their wheels virtually free from dust and provide the European stopping power they expect. The use of highly advanced ceramic brake pad technology allows Akebono’s “EURO” pad line to provide excellent stopping power while extending rotor life and virtually eliminating brake dust.

Akebono is determined to focus on the creation of value in all products. For over two decades, Akebono Ceramic Technology (ACT) has been the original equipment (OE) standard on many of North America’s passenger cars, light trucks, and SUVs and has set the benchmark for ceramic pads used in OE vehicle production. Most importantly, European OE manufacturers now request Akebono products for their North American vehicles.

Akebono’s Aftermarket disc pads contain the same materials, engineering, quality standards, and advanced technologies used to create their OE ceramic brake pads. The use of Akebono ceramic brake pads ensures customer satisfaction and eliminates unnecessary return visits to the shop.
The Right Brake Pad Choice For Your Fleet
Akebono EURO® Ultra-Premium ceramic brake pads provide exactly the ideal vehicle control and performance response intended by the manufacturers of European makes. Maintain the enhanced pedal feel of European braking performance with brake pads and friction formulas engineered specifically for your vehicle and 100 percent manufactured in the USA.

Brake Pads That Ensure Optimal Responsiveness and Cleaner Wheels

European car owners across North America now have a brake pad solution that will keep their wheels virtually free from dust and provide the European stopping power they expect. The use of Akebono exclusive, highly advanced ceramic brake pad technology means that Akebono’s EURO Ultra-Premium brake pads provide excellent stopping power while extending rotor life and virtually eliminating brake dust, so the wheels on your European vehicle will remain their cleanest.

In addition, Akebono EURO Ultra-Premium ceramic brake pads control noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) and help ensure longer rotor life. They are the ultimate upgrade for semi-metallic and low-metallic brake pads.

Akebono: The Industry Standard for European Manufacturers

For over two decades, Akebono Ceramic Technology® (ACT) has been standard on many of North America’s passenger cars, light trucks, and SUVs and has set the benchmark for ceramic pads used in OE vehicle production. Now European manufacturers request Akebono brake products, and Akebono can deliver that level of reliability to your replacement brake pads.

Akebono manufactures replacement disc pads that contain the same materials, engineering, quality standards, and advanced technologies used to create Akebono original ceramic brake pads. The use of Akebono ceramic brake pads ensures customer satisfaction and eliminates unnecessary return visits to the shop.

Akebono EURO Ultra-Premium ceramic brake pads are designed for use in the following vehicle applications:
- Audi
- BMW
- Fiat
- Jaguar
- Land Rover
- Mercedes-Benz
- MINI
- Porsche
- SAAB
- Volkswagen
- Volvo
Get the safety, performance and durability that Akebono provides—and enjoy the precise braking control that you have come to expect. Trust the brake experts that pioneered ceramic braking technology.

EURO Ultra-Premium brand products are environmentally friendly and adhere to the low copper requirements under California and Washington restrictions.