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 Message-ID: <CACioK3uCxD6SpbQCO=jnpymo2cqpgnrc+nszwwpdze1hvqv...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com