Pad review /// TOW & HAUL
Wagner SevereDuty
Wagner's heavy-load pad: a semi-metallic carbon friction material on the zero-copper OE25 formulation, with stainless hardware in the box for the main applications. The first semi-metallic compound in this library.
Spec sheet
Character ratings
The verdict
Best for: Trucks, SUVs, vans and cars that haul or tow in traffic, where pad life outranks silence.
The trade-off: Wagner publishes no temperature range and no noise or dust figure, and semi-metallic friction sits at the loud, dusty end of the street scale.
Reading the numbers
Standout traits: pad life (8/10).
No outright weak axis for its intended duty.
Ratings here follow this library's rubric: every axis is set by something the maker publishes, or by the duty-class default named below. Character guidance, not lab data.
Where these numbers come from. Class defaults, because Wagner publishes no figure: operating window, bite, cold performance, pad life. Noise, dust and rotor friendliness follow low-metallic, the nearest family this library already rates, because no semi-metallic pad was rated before this one.
Built from wagnerbrake.com/light-vehicle/braking/brake-pads/wagner-sd.html ↗, read 12 September 2026.
Six pads to compare this with
Two are other tow & haul pads and four come from the rest of the library. Inside each group the pad whose heat ceiling sits closest to this one's 520°C comes first.
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