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When towing pushes your truck's brakes hard, you want a brake you can feel. These low-metallic pads give a strong initial bite with a bed-in coating for quicker break-in, giving you an immediate response when it matters most. Front or rear use.
Heavy trailers and loaded trucks can expose the limits of standard replacement brake pads, especially during repeated stops. These brake pads use a severe duty low-metallic friction formula that has been field-tested in demanding towing, utility, municipal, off-road, and fleet applications to deliver smooth braking, strong pedal bite, and fade resistance. Designed for front or rear wheel applications, depending on your vehicle, they deliver immediate, predictable braking that stays composed when the workload increases.
Brake performance starts with consistent pad construction, not just friction material. Positive mold manufacturing controls pad shape, density, and thickness while fully containing the friction material in precision-machined molds. Uniform compression under high pressure and heat creates consistent density, structural strength, and dimensional accuracy, while tighter manufacturing tolerances produce cleaner edges with reduced waste. Your brake system delivers consistent pedal feel from one pad to the next.
Low-metallic brake pads can deliver the strong initial bite many towing-focused drivers want, but noise is often part of the tradeoff. Multi-layer vulcanized rubber shims made with Trelleborg brake shim materials help suppress brake noise while resisting shim surface degradation. Chemical vulcanization hardens the rubber like a car tire, helping your truck maintain quieter braking through demanding service.
New brake pads need time to transfer an even layer of friction material onto the rotor before they reach their intended braking performance. Timbren's brake pads include a bed-in coating, a thin friction layer applied to the pad surface that helps speed up the break-in process. The result is better pedal feel right after installation and less time waiting for your brakes to reach full performance, so you spend less time breaking in new pads. Changing brake pads is a job many experienced DIYers can handle, but brakes are one of those projects where being almost right is still wrong. If you'd rather leave it to a pro, find an installer near you.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi, everybody. Andy here with etrailer. Let's take a quick look at these Timbren front or rear wheel BES disc brake pads. Now these pads have been designed to fit your 2015 to 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 2500s and 3500s with either the dual or single rear wheel setup. Now on custom fit parts such as these pads, I do recommend going through our vehicle fit guide here at etrailer. Pop in the year, make and model of your vehicle, answer any other questions that it might have for you, and that fit guide will confirm if these pads will work for you, or if we have something comparable that will work for you.
Also, I want to mention that we do carry these pads in kits with rotors. So if you're also looking for the Timbren rotors that go with these pads, again, the vehicle fit guide will point you in the right direction, and we'll find you the complete kit, front and rear, that will work for your Silverado or Sierra. Now, if you do a lot of towing, your factory brake pads can start to feel overwhelmed by that extra weight. These severe duty brake pads are designed specifically for trucks that tow, giving you that stronger initial bite and a more responsive pedal. So you're going to feel more confident when you need to slow down, whether traffic suddenly comes to a stop or someone pulls out in front of you.
These are going to provide better control during hard braking situations. These are also built to handle the heat that comes with towing. The fade resistant friction material maintains consistent braking performance through repeated stops. So your brakes are going to stay predictable even on those long grades or in stop-and-go traffic. And because these are low metallic pads, they naturally provide more stopping power, but they can create more noise.
So to help with that, we have these premium multilayer vulcanized rubber shims that are going to help reduce squeal without sacrificing brake performance. As you can see there on that photo, I have an example of one of Timbren's shims just showing you that multi-layered rubberized construction along with that second photo there, just showing you a little more detail of the brake pad itself. Each pad is positive molded, which is going to ensure consistent density and precise dimensions for even wear and reliable braking performance throughout the life of your pads. It includes everything that you see here on my table. But if you do want help with installation on this product page, typically underneath the photo section, we have a link that will take you to our installer locator.
Click that link, answer the questions that it has for you, and that locator will find an installer in your area that etrailer has partnered with to help you with the install. Well, again, my name's Andy. Thank you for joining me.
Ratings & Reviews
Haven’t put many miles on them just yet, but they stop very quickly. Shipping was great, and packaging is nice. Blue covers are a nice touch to the pad as well. Will update after I wear them out
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