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Old Jul 5, 2005 | 05:33 AM
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Brembo Rotors from eBay?

Does anyone have experience with Brembos from this ebay retailer?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WD1V

They are priced right. About $110/pair with about $15 shipping for Brembo drilled & slotted. I am considering slotted-only, however.

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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 10:28 AM
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pure crud.... just get some blanks man.. like at www.performancerotors.com or something.
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 11:53 AM
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that is a brembo blank rotor that that company machined and drilled in house...... BAD

if Brembo didnt make the actual cuts, then its a stock rotor with material removed and will not hold up well.....
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 12:02 PM
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Hmmm, thanks. I don't want to spend that much dough, so I think I'll just go with Brembo blanks.
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by kevin444
pure crud.... just get some blanks man.. like at www.performancerotors.com or something.
Just to be clear, Performance buys Brembo blanks and drills them theirselves.

From their webpage:

We drill and slot all the BLANK BREMBO rotors "in-house" with this CNC Machine. We receive the original blank rotors manufactured by BREMBO and use the CNC Machine to drill and slot these rotors. Please call us 1-818-344-4415 if you have any questions regarding this process.

I don't agree with Jim, as I think Brembo themselves do the same thing. My slotted PerformanceRotors are doing just fine, and I've been beating on them pretty hard the last 4,000 miles.
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 07:55 PM
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I Bought drilled brembo rotors from a large seller on ebay and they were fake (not brembo). They were advertised as brembo but were cheap Korean sourced rotors and look low quality. Look on the sellers feedback (I wish I had looked closely). In my case the seller had a 98% positive rating but several people had made comments that the rotors were not genuine (and for some reason they left positive or neutral comments that do not change the positve rating). Easy to check but buyer beware.
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by midiwall
Just to be clear, Performance buys Brembo blanks and drills them theirselves.

From their webpage:




I don't agree with Jim, as I think Brembo themselves do the same thing. My slotted PerformanceRotors are doing just fine, and I've been beating on them pretty hard the last 4,000 miles.
drilling and slotting a blank will leave less material than jsut a blank..... nothing to disagree about there
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Fingers
I Bought drilled brembo rotors from a large seller on ebay and they were fake (not brembo). They were advertised as brembo but were cheap Korean sourced rotors and look low quality. Look on the sellers feedback (I wish I had looked closely). In my case the seller had a 98% positive rating but several people had made comments that the rotors were not genuine (and for some reason they left positive or neutral comments that do not change the positve rating). Easy to check but buyer beware.


i heard of brembo imitation company by the name of bradi!
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jimabena74
drilling and slotting a blank will leave less material than jsut a blank..... nothing to disagree about there
Ummm, sure, but that's not what you said:
if Brembo didnt make the actual cuts, then its a stock rotor with material removed and will not hold up well.....
That sounds like you were saying that if you want quality then only Brembo can cut their rotors.


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that is a brembo blank rotor that that company machined and drilled in house...... BAD
I'm curious what you think Brembo does... Do you think that a slotted and/or drilled rotor that I pick up from the Brembo warehouse has been cast with the slots/holes in it?

I'm pretty sure that Bembo rotors in general are machined, not cast. So the slots/holes have to get cut into the blanks at some point...
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Old Jul 7, 2005 | 05:41 AM
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Okay. That's interesting. Very good comments!
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