The Pads are awesome, but they will eat the factory rotors alive. Ford is replacing my rotors after only 3 months on the Greenstuff pads, although I am very hard on brakes. Oh, the rotors were new when I put the EBC pads on. Make sure you order the correct ones for your car. The ones I orginally recieved (From TireRack) only fit the 99.5 and earlier cars. The pads for the 99.5's and 2000's are the same as the standard Contour/Cougar. I think BAT Inc has a good picture of the difference in pads.
http://www.4113pittsburg.com/Automobiles/ContourSVT/Default.asp 2000 CSVT
