Chinese brake rotors

[frano]

  Just a warning. I purchased Chinese replacement front disc rotors off of "Racing Boy" on Ebay.  They lasted about 1100 miles before they started to warp.  No racing, the only extra weight was my camping gear.  My stock rotors lasted 20 years and over 40,000 miles. I sent Racing Boy an email but no reply. As usual, you get what you pay for or even less, sometimes.

[Dads_FJ]

Does he have a return policy?  Did he advertise them as "quality" or oem, which would be false?  Perhaps ebay would help make it right - That's a lotta dough for junk.  Yahoo list had (I thought) a data-base of ebay loosers to avoid, might be good to add this feature somehow on this forum.

John '84 1100

[hein]

I've had my "racing boy" rotors on for one season and about 6,000 km. without any problems. I did switch to DP hh pads when I installed them along with the R1 calipers. The problem could also be with sticking caliper pistons.
Unfortunately there is not much recourse with Chinese E bay sellers as they will just switch names when negative feedback piles up on them.
Hein.

[frano]

No, I don't have a sticky caliper. I just think it is cheap metal. I didn't contact Ebay, do to the time elapsed. Others may not have the same problem but I just wanted folks to be aware of the risk.  

[ribbert]

General Category / Maintenance / Clutch bleeding

on: January 05, 2012, 02:45:25 AM




Difficulty bleeding clutches seems a regular topic here. My turn finally came last week strarting with everything dry. As I've read countless times, could not start process by pumping lever so I put about a metre of clear plastic tubing over the open bleeder nipple, filled the reservoir and sucked on the tube (poor mans pressure bleeder). 2 sucks and I had about a foot of lovely, clean, bubble free fluid in the tube, closed the nipple, topped up the reservoir, done and dusted! Took less than a minute all up.
Noel



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[ccsct203]

Just a warning. I purchased Chinese replacement front disc rotors off of "Racing Boy" on Ebay.  They lasted about 1100 miles before they started to warp.  No racing, the only extra weight was my camping gear.  My stock rotors lasted 20 years and over 40,000 miles. I sent Racing Boy an email but no reply. As usual, you get what you pay for or even less, sometimes.

Used Ducati rotors $150