LAS VEGAS -- At AAPEX this week, Bosch is launching a major brake program and introducing QuietCast Premium Disc Brake Pads. QuietCast pads feature a rubber-core shim that promotes silent operation. The brake pad program, with 789 part numbers, will provide 95 percent coverage for all makes and models of Asian, domestic and European automobiles, light trucks and SUVs.

“The QuietCast brake pad program offers platform-specific ceramic, semi-metallic and non-asbestos organic (NAO) formulations, rubber-core shims and Molded Shim Technology (MST) on selected applications. These unique OE-style features provide quiet, outstanding braking performance, as well as long life. QuietCast brake pads are engineered, manufactured, distributed and backed by Bosch,” said Rob Backode, director of product management for Bosch Automotive Aftermarket Brake Components North America.

“This is just what you’d expect from the world’s largest OE supplier of brake components and the company that brought you groundbreaking technologies like Anti-Lock Braking and Electronic Stability Control. One out of every three vehicles on the road in North America utilizes Bosch brake components, and QuietCast Disc Brake Pads continue the Bosch tradition of excellence and set new standards for quiet, reliable braking on today’s vehicles,” Backode added.