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ok ok, I should be more detail at the beginning.
The pads are ceramic from Autozone. The car is Toyota minivan. On the pads, there is a little rubberize padding on the back. It cost more than twice other pads there, if I remember right. To me, brake pads on the minivan is not that important, we drive slow anyway, but on the other hands, it should be well because we have kids in there.
After it came in, braking is much smoothier, and very quiet. The bad part is that I have to oush the pedal a lot harder. Let me give an example. Imagine the different feeling between rubber lines and stainless steel lines. On rubber line compare to ss lines, you have to push the pedal harder because the rubber line tend to expand when you apply pressure to it. There is not a lot of this expanding, but you do feel it. Now, on my ceramic pads and my minivan, the feeling is the same but a lot more pronounce. I am not sure if that is how ceraminc pads feel like, or it is the rubberize padding made this feeling. I think this padding is there with the purpose to help quieting the the brake noise, but I feel it definitely makes the making feels weird. I do like to pill it off, but afraid it will make noise when braking. To go step by step, I want to bleed the brake first to see if it will get any better.

Ceramic pads came in several months already so it should pass bedding period.

Fluid level isn't getting lower after replacing pads, but if I bleed it, I will defnitely need to add fluid.
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