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You know that stinky smell on the streets and roads just after it starts raining? Yeah, that's a combination of asphalt, tire rubber dust, and asbestos brake pad dust.. What a lovely smell!
Asbestos never disappeared, it's still used in most brake pads to this day, though there is at least some recent motivation for vehicle manufacturers to switch to other materials.
A day late and a dollar short if you ask me, cuz I bet that unless you live under a rock, you've inhaled asbestos before. ☹️
Yeah, thats why I included "mostly" in my question.
Asbestos isn't used in brake pads anymore, we've gone to organo metallic mixtures. So mostly carbon with some iron, manganese, and nickel thrown in.
Meanwhile, while I service vehicles over 30 years old, and new old stock still sits on the shelves and they ain't making new parts for old vehicles anymore..
Yeah, please, please tell me that everyone's brake pads were manufactured within the last two years, I'll laugh you right out of the shop. 😂🤣
So you swapped out a few pairs of NOS parts on a couple classics. I worked as an engineer for akebono, one of the biggest brake manufacturers in the world. Almost every European and American manufacturer ditched asbestos around 1990. Some imported "value" pads may contain asbestos, and some classic cars are still gonna have asbestos pads. But the vast majority of cars on the road do not.