Thank you. Where should I look? Which forum?
Submariner409 already moved your thread to the appropriate forum, the 2008-2013 Cadillac CTS General Discussion forum. Note that there are also "Performance Mods" and "Appearance Mods" forums for your model in the same section of the forum.
I have a 2010 CTS Wagon AWD that I want to put ceramic brake pads on. When I looked on line the ceramic pads were recommended for use with aluminum calipers. Mine are cast iron. Is there a problem if I use them? I am trying to reduce/stop the brake dust.
The pad compound chosen has nothing to do with the material composition of the calipers; you can use whatever pads you want. My guess is that the listings you were looking at were the wrong part number, and were intended for the Brembo calipers (which are aluminum) on the CTS-V.
If you go to
www.rockauto.com and select the proper year/model/engine, then look at the brake parts, you will find any number of options for ceramic pads for your car. Note that you'll need to know if you have the
JE5 or J55 brakes, as they use different pad shapes.
Why do you want to use ceramic pads? From what I've read, the ceramic pads are not recommended, unless you're racing. The OEM pads seem to give the best performance. At least, that's what I've read.
I'm not sure where you read that, Bob, but it's pretty much completely backwards. Maybe you're confusing "ceramic pads" with "carbon ceramic brakes", which are a completely different animal? Anyway, ceramic pads are the typical non-performance, daily driver type pads that are probably on the majority of cars on the road today. According to ACDelco's parts listing, the OEM JE5 pads
are ceramic. Ceramic pads are perfectly fine for daily driver use, and in fact would be pretty much worthless for racing, as they're not formulated to perform at the high temperatures that would be seen on track. More info
here.