changing Front Brake Pads For Towing TT

I replaced front and rear pads on my F250 with Hawk Performance LTS pads and the difference was night and day.It stops better than it did when new. I would recommend them even if you didn't tow.

I got vented rotors and ceramic pads at Autoanything.com Your application seems to be priced at 183.19

My BIL owns an auto parts store and a few years ago when we still had our old F150, he recommended ceramic pads and high performance vented rotors and at a could not refuse price so we got them. The braking was much improved. Did about 5K miles of towing a 5K lb TT with the new brakes and had no negatives that I noticed. Ceramic can have issues with heat, brake fade and warping of rotors tho. I think semi-metallic pads would be a better choice than either ceramic or organic-based pads and are a good choice for towing. I'd probably replace the rotors too.

Here is a comparison and pros & cons on the 3 basic types of brake pads.

Yeah... X2 When properly setup the TV's brakes should not experience any additional wear when towing.

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Regular brakes should do fine. Properly working and adjusted trailer brakes should be more than enough to stop the trailer.

+1

Clamping down the front brakes harder (softer pads) can actually be a bad thing as it has more of a tendency to jack-knife the trailer. And the pads probably would wear out quicker too.

Regular brakes should do fine. Properly working and adjusted trailer brakes should be more than enough to stop the trailer.