If this is an old question then I'm hoping max' can steer me with a link?
The setup: Looking around for brake pads. I have of course seen the cheapos on eBay and Amazon and I even have a set in my tool bag for emergency usage (mine or for a fellow rider). OK for spares in the tool bag, but I didn't like the looks of them, the metal backing was thinner than OEM or EBC and the pads looked smaller in surface area and they didn't appear to have any indentations in the back so I think there is no mechanical attachment in shear, just the glue. I'll probably buy the EBCs from Murph, but....
The Question:...in looking around I noticed that there is a new part number for Gen II OEM pads starting in 2012 (43082-0122). Anybody know what the difference is between them and 43082-112, and if they are interchangeable with each other? Also I found a different one for the Gen I as well 43082-0071.
What's up with this? Anybody? Anybody?
If this is an old question then I'm hoping max' can steer me with a link?
Another very nice touch, at least IMO, is that all OEM brake pads have a wear groove in them and that is very helpful for a visual inspection; no matter how much pad is left, it always seems they are about 10 seconds away from being gone when looking at them on the bike, at least to me.
Are you sure the gen. 2 front brake pads that you found started in 2012 Marty? The reason I ask is because as far as I know, there are two OEM front brake pads for the C-14, the '08 and '09, and the '10 and later. And they are very, very different. They are interchangeable in use. Kawasaki came out with the second pads in an effort of cure the brake rotors warping and it did not work. But they are excellent pads IMO.
per the Kawasaki Mocrofiche...( not Ron Ayers)
2008 & 2009 model 43082-0071 PAD-ASSY-BRAKE
2010 & 2011 model 43082-0112 PAD-ASSY-BRAKE (Kaw Microfiche shows designator in picture as 43082A, but still calls out the -0112 pad in list)
2012 & up model 43082-0122 PAD-ASSY-BRAKE
3 total pad versions were made.
FWIW, I recently changed my pads and went with "43082-0112". I regret that decision. I don't recommend those pads. I'll go back to 43082-0071, next time.
FWIW, I recently changed my pads and went with "43082-0112". I regret that decision. I don't recommend those pads. I'll go back to 43082-0071, next time.
There we go, two exact opposite opinions (mine thoughts are the exact inverse). This is what happens when we humans are given choices; Henry Ford had it right in only offering the Model T in black- no one complained about the color until there were choices.
I think Mr. Lincoln might say, if he was a motorcycle rider, something such as: ' In great questions in motorcycling, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.' So one or both of us is wrong and now it is up to Marty to decide which it is.....
Brian
If not then he's not really GODDDD!