Description
One of the more common inquiries we get about brake pads on Volvos is, "How do I get rid of the dust?" While you'll never eliminate brake dust completely, Akebono EURO ceramic pads offer a great solution to the excessive dusting of Volvo OEM brake pads.
With many pads, moving to a denser material like ceramic can be prone to brake squeal, poor cold pad performance and other trade offs. We've installed Akebono EURO pad sets on several Volvos and have been more than pleased with the results. Good cold performance, great resistance to brake fade and best of all -- almost no brake dust on the wheels!
Akebono EURO Ultra-Premium brake pads provide excellent vehicle control and response performance. Akebono uses advanced ceramic brake pad technology allows their “EURO” pad line to provide excellent stopping power and virtually eliminating brake dust.
For over twenty years, Akebono Ceramic Technology (ACT) has been the original equipment (OE) standard on many of North America’s passenger cars, light trucks, and SUVs and has set the benchmark for ceramic pads used in OE vehicle production. Most importantly, European OE manufacturers now request Akebono products for their North American vehicles. Akebono’s Aftermarket disc pads contain the same materials, engineering, quality standards, and advanced technologies used to create their OE ceramic brake pads.
Potential Product Fitment Issues
1999-2000 S70/V70/V70XC/V70R all wheel drive models were equipped from the factory with 2 different styles of rear brake pad/rotor.
To ensure correct ordering please inspect what is currently equipped on your car.
These fit the "late" style used by Volvo. See picture to verify your pads/rear rotors look like the picture.

Typically found on:
- V70 AWD 1999 chassis number 588640+
- V70 XC 1999 chassis number 587442+
- V70R 1999 chassis number 587597+
- S70 AWD 1999 withOUT Nivomat chassis number 596636+
- S70 AWD 1999 WITH Nivomat chassis number 598923+
- V70 AWD/XC/R 2000 all
- S70 AWD 2000 all
About Akebono
We are proud to offer the Akebono brand for your brake needs!
Akebono Brakes are trusted by manufacturers globally, delivering superior braking power, quiet performance, and longer rotor and pad life. Akebono is a pioneer of ceramic friction technology, Akebono manufactures 100% of its aftermarket brakes in the USA.
"Enjoy a smoother ride and clean wheels with Akebono Brakes."
(Akebono’s Pro-ACT Ultra-Premium, EURO Ultra-Premium and Performance Ultra-Premium brand products are environmentally friendly and adhere to the low copper requirements under California and Washington restrictions.)
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