I'm a long time StopTech customer. I actually have their 309's on my SO's Sentra and my daily driver WRX now. I've used their pads for over 10 years on various cars now.
In general, StopTech's gone downhill. I've also heard they started relabeling 308's from different lower-end products. In fact, I ordered a set of 309's for my BRZ Brembos and received a white box with some generic looking pads with no slit in the middle stamped as 309's back this spring. I gave up on them after that. I feel like they're just making the cheapest pads and relabeling them as 308's, 309's etc and selling them at higher prices. Unless you're getting some old stock somewhere, it's not worth it anymore. I'm pretty sure I was sent some "100" pad compound. This guy who commented on a video I made had the same experience:
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Be careful with Centric / StopTech Spring 2023. They seem to have had management or organizational changes in the last year or two. My recent experience with 309 pads for a Miata (and from TireRack) is as follows. Showed up in a generic white box. No hardware is included. No slot across the compound, unlike the 309s I just removed. No leading / trailing edge chamfer. Different backing plate shape. Different appearance to the compound. Discussing with another brake seller, it was claimed that Centric 105 or 104 or 103 pads might be substituted for 309s and 308s. My samples resemble 103s per photos on RockAuto. A 12 dollar low-feature pad without high claims. Perhaps at some point things will clarify or resolve, but I can no longer suggest ANY Centric or StopTech brake pad for now. Not sure about their other braking products such as rotors, I have not heard about issues there. Anyone? TR suggests that all Centrics now come in plain white boxes, that seems unlikely but who knows. TR also cannot supply the brake pad hardware and when I tried two local sources those did not work so I could always just reuse the old genuine StopTech hardware with another pad. This may be supply chain related, IDK but there may also be shaky things going on or profiteering, Be careful out there!
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I went with Ferodo DS2500's and haven't looked back. But keep in mind they are much more than StopTechs. $430 for the set vs I think just over $200 for Stoptechs all around. The Ferodos modulate much better and seem to dust a bit less. Threshold braking is about the same.