I needed brakes after taking my car to the race track for a couple grueling hours of road course racing. I looked on ebay and found a company located in Canada that had a set of decent looking drilled rotors, and all the pads.
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In their defense they did help me out on shipping, and I got a really good deal. I think I paid 270CDN shipped and taxes included. I ended up purchasing them, but since they gave me a deal on shipping we couldn't do the transaction through ebay. As sketchy as that was, the parts arrived in good time and looked good as well.
When it came around to installation time, the rotors fit perfect, I had the option for the hats to be painted black. The rear pads (which were the ones I needed very badly) fit perfect as well. The only problem were the front pads weren't correct (luckily mine were still half good). I sent them 3 e-mails with the picture included but got no response. I have given up on them now.
All in all I would have been happy with the kit. If they had better customer service I would even recommend them. I had no problem getting a hold of them through e-mail until I came to them about the pads being wrong.
I'm really not too worried about it. I really only wanted the rotors, and I am happy with them. I didn't expect their pads to live up to what I want them to do anyway. That's why I am not persueing this more.
They may be "junk on name ebay parts" but they are machined here in Canada, so I trust them more than some of the other cheap rotors on the internet. I looked at a lot of them before I bought these ones.
I'm really not too worried about it. I really only wanted the rotors, and I am happy with them. I didn't expect their pads to live up to what I want them to do anyway. That's why I am not persueing this more.
They may be "junk on name ebay parts" but they are machined here in Canada, so I trust them more than some of the other cheap rotors on the internet. I looked at a lot of them before I bought these ones.
do you know 100% they're machined in canada?
i hate to burst your bubble, i suspect that these are cheap-lowest bidder rotors from china (at least the blanks).
just to let you know that i bought a set of these (couldn't resist the price) and actually went to pick them up from their distrubution center. they had all sorts of import goods at their warehouse (like stuffed animals, toilet seats, etc etc) so i'm pretty sure this is on par with the rest of cheap ebay brake parts. now, i don't think these are going to explode on you and i'm sure they meet the minimum DOT standards and will get you acceptable braking but i fully expect these to warp and wear a lot faster than a set of premium rotors from napa. as i don't road race and have a highway commute it was a compromise that i was willing to accept. i just wouldn't run these rotors hard and expect them to last.
thanks for the review on the rotors. glad to hear they will fit at least (i didn't get the pads as i've had some bad experiences with cheap pads).
Well I guess I have to bite my tounge. I just got a reply back today stateing that the guy was on vacation and he is sending the proper pad out today. We'll see what happens.
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