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When your truck is working harder under tow, factory brakes can feel slower to respond. This rear brake upgrade kit pairs severe-duty pads with rotors that manage heat and deliver strong initial bite, so repeated stops stay smooth and predictable.
Adding trailer weight changes how your truck responds when you press the brake pedal, especially during sudden stops or repeated braking. These brake pads use a severe-duty, low-metallic friction formula that delivers a strong initial bite, while the matched rotors use OEM-style vanes to help manage the added heat towing creates. Together they give your truck a more immediate, predictable braking response that stays consistent through repeated stops.
Brake vibration often traces back to uneven rotor machining or inconsistent braking surfaces, especially after repeated heat cycles. The rotors use computer-controlled castings with fly-cut, mill-balanced construction and meet or exceed OE specifications for machining tolerances. A non-directional cross-hatch finish promotes even pad bed-in, helping your brake service start with uniform contact and maintain smooth pedal feel as your truck accumulates miles.
New brake components require a break-in period before they deliver their intended performance. These brake pads use positive mold manufacturing to produce consistent density and precise dimensions, then add a bed-in coating that improves initial pedal feel and shortens the break-in process. Multi-layer vulcanized rubber shims help limit the extra noise commonly associated with high-bite low-metallic pads, so your truck delivers responsive braking without unnecessary chatter.
Road spray, moisture, and winter conditions often leave exposed brake components looking rough long before the friction surface wears out. The G3000 premium raw iron rotors use an OnyxBond matte black coating on the hat, vanes, and edges to help reduce rust on exposed non-friction surfaces. Your rotors stay looking better between services without affecting braking performance.
Replacing brake rotors is a job many experienced DIYers can handle, but brakes are one of those projects where being almost right is still wrong. If you would rather leave it to a professional, find an installer near you.
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Hi, everybody, Andy here with etrailer. Let's take a quick look at this Timbren Rear-Wheel BES Brake Upgrade Kit. Now, this kit has been designed to fit your 2021 to current Ford F-150 with the 350-millimeter rotors. And on custom-fit parts such as this kit, 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 our fit guide will confirm if this kit will work for you or if we have something comparable that will work for you. Now, upgrading the suspension on your truck obviously improves the ride quality, helps reduce sagging when you're towing or hauling heavy loads, and it's going to make your truck feel more stable while you're towing or hauling.
But unfortunately, it does not reduce the extra workload placed on your factory brakes. So, if you've ever felt like that your truck takes longer to brake while you're towing a trailer or your brakes are wearing out faster than you expect, or the added weight is making your braking feel less confident, that's where this BES brake upgrade kit is going to come into play. This kit is designed to give your truck stronger, more consistent braking when it's carrying those heavy loads. Now, these low-metallic Onyx bike brake pads are going to give you a strong initial bite and eliminate brake fade that occurs with frequent stopping when towing. So you're going to notice more confident, consistent braking during braking performance, rather, on every road trip.
And these multi-layered rubber shims here on the back, they're going to help stabilize your brake pads during braking, ultimately reducing vibration, keeping the braking noise to a minimum without sacrificing braking performance. On your screen, I have a few pictures there. The first one shows the construction detail of one of Timbren's shims there, the multi-layered rubber construction of it. The second photo shows what a brake pad looks like with that shim removed, just to give you a better look at the brake pad and the construction of it. So these positive molded pads paired with these precision balance rotors are going to promote smooth, even braking, and more consistent pedal feel.
Speaking of these rotors, these are OEM-style vented rotors. They're going to help dissipate heat during repeated stops. That's going to help reduce brake fade when towing. And these are premium G-3000 raw iron rotors. And they feature Timbren's OnyxBond matte black coating on the hat, vanes, and outer edges.
So as you probably know, heat is the enemy of brakes. So, this OnyxBond coating has a heat threshold of up to 932 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 67% better than the standard GEOMET coating that's found on most OEM parts. This coating also helps protect them from rust caused by road spray, moisture, and winter driving, keeping your brakes looking cleaner between services without affecting braking performance. By the way, these pads also feature a bed-in coating indicated by the blue stripes that you see here on the pads. That's going to transfer to the rotor to protect it during first stop. So you're going to be able to enjoy consistent braking performance sooner after installation. Insulation is going to be relatively straightforward. It includes everything that you see here on my table. However, if you're not too excited about doing the installation yourself, on this product page underneath the photos 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 install this for you. So if you've already upgraded the suspension on your truck and you have that smoother, more controlled ride, this brake kit is going to complement that upgrade by addressing the other half of that equation, giving your truck the stopping power and the confidence to better handle towing larger trailers, heavier trailers, hauling heavier loads. And together it's going to create a more safe, more capable towing setup. I think this is going to wrap up our look today. Again, my name's Andy. Thank you for joining me.
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