Hella Pagid 355020361 Rear Brake Pads for Range Rover

If the rear brakes on your Range Rover or Range Rover Sport are past their prime, these Hella 355020361 pads are the replacement set that gets you back to a firm, quiet pedal. It's a low-metallic friction compound, engineered in Germany, cut and shimmed to drop straight onto the rear axle. And the set ships with the brake caliper screws, so you're not hunting for hardware halfway through the job.

Fitment is the whole story with brake pads, so here's the short version. This set covers the rear axle on the full-size Range Rover and the Range Rover Sport, the heavy V8 and supercharged trucks that put real weight on their rear brakes. The factory cross-reference is LR079910, which is the number your parts book will show for the original rear pads. If that number matches what came off your truck, you're in the right place. When in doubt, pull one of your old pads and check the backing plate shape against the fitment before you order.

Why low-metallic? It's the compound Hella reaches for when a heavy vehicle needs consistent bite without going full ceramic. Low-metallic pads blend steel and copper fibers into the friction material, which pulls heat out of the pad face and keeps the friction level steady when you're loaded up, towing, or coming down a long grade. On a truck as heavy as a Range Rover, that thermal headroom matters. You get a pedal that feels the same on the first stop of the morning and the fortieth stop in stop-and-go traffic.

The set is straightforward to fit if you've done a pad job before. You get the pad set for the rear axle plus the caliper screws, so the wear items and the fasteners that should always be replaced come together. Fresh screws matter more than folks think. Reusing stretched or corroded caliper bolts is how a pad job comes back to bite you. Seat the new pads with a proper bed-in procedure, a series of moderate stops from moderate speed, before you lean on them hard. That transfers an even layer of friction material onto the rotor and sets you up for quiet, even braking.

A quick word on noise and dust, since that's what most owners actually care about day to day. Low-metallic pads give you strong, reliable stopping, and the trade is a little more brake dust on the wheels than a soft ceramic pad would leave. That's normal for this compound, and it's the same trade the factory made. A rinse when you wash the truck keeps the wheels clean. If you were happy with how the original rear pads behaved, this set is cut from the same cloth.

Not sure it's time? Rear pads on a heavy SUV tend to outlast the fronts, but they do wear, and worn rears show up as a grinding or scraping noise, a longer pedal, or a parking brake that doesn't hold the way it used to on a hill. Pull a wheel and eyeball the friction material. If it's down near the backing plate, don't wait. Metal-on-metal chews up the rotor and turns a pad job into a pad-and-rotor job in a hurry.

This is a straight OE-grade replacement, so it's the right call whether you're a DIY owner doing your own maintenance in the driveway or an independent shop that wants a dependable rear pad without the dealer markup. It's not a track compound and it isn't trying to be. It's the pad you fit when you want the truck to stop the way the factory intended, quietly and predictably, for tens of thousands of miles. Match the LR079910 cross-reference, do both rear corners, bed them in, and you're done.