I agree on both points.
You say 1-2 business days. Is that with standard shipping? How do you
accomplish this without using overnight delivery or priority which may be
prohibitively expensive?
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
two
Autohausaz gives free shipping for all orders over $50. They do offer some OEM
parts but they offer no guidance. Not all OEM parts are equal. I don't always
know which to pick. That's why I liked Rusty. He would answer all my questions
and concerns and give me the best when I asked. He would
it would be by shipping from a warehouse near you. generally, unless the
item is heavy or rare, you are no more than 3 business days away as i will
ship most of my cross country stuff on fedex 3 day as it isn't really much
more than fedex ground unless heavy. but this also depends on where you
they actually mostly don't offer OEM parts, which is at least part of how
they achieve such fantastic prices. their catalogue is loaded up with
chinese generic despite the general availability of the same part in OEM.
getting back to the examples i cited recently:
kaleb's front wheel bearings
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two things in life often don't work out
with the occasional squealing even though they were
the upgrade pads from CarQuest. I might buy some replacements...
-Curt
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One way to eliminate the squeak is to stick with OEM pads
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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
I got my first set if Akebono ceramic pads from Gary a couple of months ago. I
have yet to need to clean my wheels, and they stop great.
Wish I had done these a long time ago.
On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
they actually mostly don't offer OEM parts,
the $30? Not really, it tells
time about the same. I have to be more careful about taking it off before I
put my hand into a car engine...
-Curt
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:21:36 -0400
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-Curt
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:21:36 -0400
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When I did rear pads/rotors/calipers on my '84 190D recently I used parts from
Car Quest. One thing I noticed about the pads was that the edges weren't
beveled but were squared off. I seem to remember the fronts I put on were
beveled but I haven't checked. These squared off ones squealed a bit
On Aug 29, 2013, at 5:33 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
What could be going on? Literally everything was replaced!
I responded twice and the emails disappeared. Hmmm. Intercepted by the NSA ???
Anyway, did you bed the pads? Perhaps the rotors are inferior?
Here is more than you want to
Yes I used the CRC red caliper grease. I didn't slather it on though. I
initially liked the stuff but I've noticed that it dries to a rubbery goo
unlike the Mercedes like stuff that comes in the little packages.
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com
Not sure if I know anymore what bedding pads means. I initially heard that you
should ease on the brakes but then that you should brake hard. Not being sure
which approach to take I did do some hard abrupt braking though on the test
drive.
The rotors may very well be inferior. They are made in
: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:17:19 -0400
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Yes I used the CRC red caliper grease. I didn't
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Not sure if I know anymore what bedding pads means. I initially heard that
you should ease on the brakes but then that you
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What could be going on? Literally everything was replaced!
Clipped from the referenced article.
The obvious question now is is
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'Said discs, meant rotors.
Wilton
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'Don't mean to imply that mine was this same problem - it certainly
You must brake in your new breaks!
Greg
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I finally finished the complete front brake
One way to eliminate the squeak is to stick with OEM pads, as they
have the anti-squeal material bonded to the back of the pad. Cheap
aftermarkets with plain metal backing plates (no layer of hard plastic
on the piston side) will probably squeal no matter what you do, and
glueing them to
Good point about the backing on OEM pads.
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net wrote:
One way to eliminate the squeak is to stick with OEM pads, as they have the
anti-squeal material bonded to the back of the pad. Cheap aftermarkets with
Aug 2013 20:24:16 -0400
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Not sure if I know anymore what bedding pads means. I initially heard that
you should ease on the brakes but then that you should brake hard. Not being
sure which approach to take I did do some hard abrupt
Since I usually get 60,000 miles on a set of pads, OEM is fine for
me. Thats roughly a set of fronts every three years, rears every six.
Peter
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Brakes on friend's/my 81 300D were OEM; squealed with me a first 'cause he
hadn't used 'em.
Wilton
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my philosophy on brake stuff is really simple. i sell either original
compound (textar/pagid or, rarely, jurid) or akebono ceramics. in terms of
rotors, i sell only the german stuff, zimmermann and balo, with a strong
preference towards the coated versions. back in the day i'd sell ate
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
On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
and there often isn't even that much of a delay as parts are often
delivered in one or two business days.
Silly questions, that I would've asked off-list, but are pertinent to all I
suppose.
One, do you ship from a parts
Silly questions, that I would've asked off-list, but are pertinent
to all I suppose.
One, do you ship from a parts supplier nearest your customer if you can?
Do you offer free shipping on orders over xxx dollars?
Do you provide a tracking number?
Do you provide an email invoice with orders?
usually i ship the best parts i can without regard to location. so, for
example, i really like those previously mentioned dallas made R4 AC
compressors, so i sent mike esh one of those even though i had access to
really good air products compressors 200 miles from his home. i did this
because he
Always replace calipers in pairs. I didn't once and had a terrible pull
Has the car sat a lot? What you're looking at sounds an awful lot like my 240D
last fall. It'd sat nearly a year and it was a BEAR to work on...
-Curt
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:14:31 -0400
From: Allan Streib
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:00 -0700, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
Has the car sat a lot? What you're looking at sounds an awful lot
like my 240D last fall. It'd sat nearly a year and it was a BEAR to
work on...
Well, not that long. There was a period earlier this year where I did
not
Allan Streib wrote:
I've never had calipers sieze up like that before on any other
car, foreign or domestic. Wondering why these all went bad so
quickly.
Dust boots installed and in good shape?
Using water instead of brake fluid?
-- Philip
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I've never had calipers sieze up like that before on any other car,
foreign or domestic. Wondering why these all went bad so quickly.
Been driving on salted winter roads?
Since they've started salting here, which they did not do
when I first moved here, many things automotive are much
worse
Common problem on a previously neglected Benz -- failure to replace
the rotors when they are too thin. On the W126 and prior chassis,
all the calipers have an anti-rattle spring on top, and when the
rotors are too thin and the pads are badly worn, the backing plate
will hit the spring.
Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net writes:
Common problem on a previously neglected Benz -- failure to replace
the rotors when they are too thin.
This could explain the rears -- I did not put new rotors on when I
installed the calipers last time. On the fronts, though, the rotors and
It is odd.
In the future, may I suggest what my buddy the mechanic does?
When he does an oil change for a customer he pulls all the brake
pads, cleans up the calipers, and puts a bit of anti-seize on the
sides of the backing plates. Of course, he has the car on a lift, so
it's easy, and
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