I always use ceramic pads. When they're new you don't have any problems after a few years then you might see some dust build up time to change them again. Wagner Gold worst pads to get they're bad with dust.

 

First thing that came to mind is that if you use tire shine and get it on the wheels, it will cause the dust to stick.

 

It also depends on the formulation of the ceramic material. The Bendix pads i had on my Eclipse produced a light grey, almost white dust while the Axxis ceramic produced a heavy black dust. The Axxis did bite a hell of a lot better than the Bendix did though.

 

These Bendix pads are causing dirtier wheels than the OEM pads. I guess I was a little surprised. Maybe it's material from the rotors...

 

The term "ceramic" is wide open. An engineer at Frozen Rotors told me that a manufacturer could literally put a pinch of ceramic dust in their mix and call the pads ceramic. Saying a pad is ceramic is little guarantee of anything.