I couldn't agree more. When I get parts for the truck, I always ask if
they have better ones available. So often the parts guys assume, that
price is paramount. They are generally surprised when I ask if there are
better ones one shelf. Usually, the price is not much more for the brand
name than the house brand stuff. Usually, if you compare the 2, you can
see the difference and would not buy the cheaper ones.
Randy
On 30/08/2013 12:21 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
sometimes it works out perfectly but all too often not. my ex wife used to
boast about how some $7 pair of shoes were the best pair of shoes she ever
had. great, but does this somehow mean $7 shoes are a good idea in general?
some guys are ok with enduring multiple failures for the thrill of
sometimes getting a bargain. i just want it right. i don't see the point
in messing around with generic white box chinese stuff reboxed as "pbr" or
"ate": when i can have the real deal for roughly the same price. the china
stuff might work super fine and dandy but why mess around with it when it
so often doesn't?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I mostly agree, however I put PBR rotors on my '83 240D and it worked out
perfectly for 25,000 miles. I forget the pads I used, I think ATE. I'm
reasonably sure the rotors are less of a big deal than good pads. The
fronts on my 190D are ceramic, I forget the manufacturer, Akebono
apparently didn't have a listing.
The rears irritate me with the occasional squealing even though they were
the upgrade pads from CarQuest. I might buy some replacements...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:22:52 -0400
From: Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Brake fiasco
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two things in life often don't work out well:
1. rushing
2. cheaping out
when you do either it generally ends up taking longer and costing more
money, but we have moved to a society that values fast and cheap above
all. in this case, we learn about rushing. you can't rush anymore as
there is a lot of outright crap being sold as people enjoy making 500%
margins while offering the lowest price at the same time. (in fact,THIS is
the only road to success today, but that is a topic for another time). one
simply cannot rush today and expect it to work out with any consistency.
and there often isn't even that much of a delay as parts are often
delivered in one or two business days.
cheaping out is similarly problematic. penoff sent me a customer recently
who wanted "a deal" on a water pump on a W115 300D. i told him that rather
than search for a low price on the standard geba pump all the front end
sites push, he ought to buy a hepu as those are MUCH better in this
application than the mediocre geba and that i'd sell him one for like 10
bucks more than a geba. a few days later he emails to solicit advise as
he is having fitment problems with the geba he bought from the low bidder.
what did he save by cheaping out? the bottom line is that going and buying
a pile of garbage at autohausAZ is not really the best value, sort of like
buying shoes at walmart. sometimes it works out but often it does not
someone was shocked today to learn that the bucket hat i wear all the time
(yeah, i'm a fashion icon) cost over 60 bucks in a world where walmart and
the flea market sell bucket hats for under 10 dollars all day long. i
didn't care to explain it and just said "man, did i get taken!" but the
reality is that it is hemp watership that has been worn pretty much daily
by me for 4 years. it has been washed hundreds of times. it will probably
last several years more and odds are the i will lose it before i wear it
out.
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