Scion xB Power Slot Brake Rotors are sold individually. Power Slot's are a direct replacement for your factory equipment. For best results, follow the "Brake Pad Bed-In" instructions included with every shipment. Brake caliper service or rebuild is recommended for vehicles with higher mileage.
Excessive heat can cause resins in your brake pad to vaporize or "outgas." As the brake pad wears, the used friction material turns into a fine dust. This boundary layer of heat, gas and dust builds up between the pad and braking surfaces and inhibits performance. Here's where Power Slot's slotted brake components make a big difference.
Power Slot's exclusive Vac-U-Slots are machined into the surface and help evacuate gasses and dust, shed heat, and keep the brake pad surface clean. And in wet, raining conditions, our Vac-U-Slot helps push water off the braking surface for better stopping power.
The Vac-U-Slot also serves as a visual wear indicator. The slot is machined to minimum thickness where it crosses the outside edge. If you cannot see the slot along the outside edge, the rotor has worn down to its discard depth.
Every Power Slot starts off as a premium quality blank casting sourced from the best foundries worldwide. We make sure our products meet and exceed the features of the O.E.
Some competitors will sacrifice quality by using lower-grade, off-shore (aka ecomony) castings that do not match OEM specs. While these economy products might be okay for light-duty city driving, they won't hold up under the rigors of high performance, fleet or severe duty driving.
Drilled OE sized may look cool, but they are not recommended for severe duty conditions. Excessive hole drilling in an OE weakens it and cause stress points that may lead to cracking. Excessive drilling sacrifices considerable surface area and mass compared to slotted. That means less active braking area for the pad to make contact on the rotor. Power Slot machines each surface to maintain integrity of the component.
Power Slot applies a proprietary military-spec plating on nearly every rotor we sell. This protects the rotor from harmful corrosion during the early stage of its wear life. Other competitors use inferior Zinc plating on their rotors, or no plating at all! In salt spray testing, our plating last up to 60% longer than Zinc.
A combination of Hawk® high performance brake pads and Power Slot slotted rotors will deliver superior, reliable braking for your Scion xB.