EBC Green Stuff Front Brake Pads, 1997-2003 BMW 540i, 4.4 (E39)

• Fast/Heavy Street Use
• Brake well from cold
• Effective to above 650 deg.
• Lower dust formula (read below)

Designed for premium street driving offering better brake effect at loads and speed. EBC Greenstuff has a high initial brake effect and gives drivers confidence from first application of the brake pedal. There is no such thing as a NO DUST pad. The very nature of how a brake works requires that some dust be generated to avoid rotor vibration (shimmying). The EBC pad creates less dust and dust is more easily washed off than most. All pads create more dust as they are bedding in especially if rotors are worn. Nominal friction coefficient 0.55.

European cars are built with high friction brake pads and must be replaced either with original parts or an aftermarket pad, such as EBC Greenstuff, which has a matching friction level (average friction coefficient 0.55). Failure to do this will result in a brake imbalance front to rear on your vehicle.

EBC Greenstuff pads have been type approved on every car they are recommended for and can be considered a perfect replacement for original parts on european cars. This is known as an R90 european brake safety test. 100% of EBCs pad offerings are R90 tested and approved. The EBC product even includes wear sensor leads whererequired. On VW and Audi models the sensors are bonded into the pad and come with your pads.

On BMW and Mercedes models the pad has a wear receptor on the top of the backplate and the wear lead clips into this. It is not necessary to replace this wire at every pad change unless the contactor has activated and is worn. In such cases EBC sell genuine replacement wires under the EFA series wear lead programme sold by better web retailers

Now featured on all EBC pads
EBC’s unique friction accelerator coating called Brake-In is now applied to all EBC production and offers the following benefits.

• Instant brake-in of pad to rotor
• Perfect brakes from installation
• Conditions rotor surface removing glaze and scale
• Eliminates need for installer to bed-in the brakes after fitment

EBC Brake-In surface coating is a heat applied polymer coating which includes a mild abrasive compound to accelerate brake-in.

The coating lasts between 50-250 miles depending on rotor condition by which time the brakes should have geometrically bedded to the rotor, but it will then take a further 500-700 miles before the optimum final pad performance is noticed due to the nature of EBC friction material.