Re: [alfa] 164 front rotor brands

["Dean W. Cains" <dwc@xxxxxx>]

I bought the Brembo's thinking the same thing, and their price was within 
just a few $ +/- of the ATE's and Zimmerman's, but they're are all 
OEM-type.  No slots, holes, etc.  That, and I thought adding even one 
Italian part to that nasty Volvo might be an improvement.  The only other 
thing I changed was the pads, from Axxis Metal Masters to EBC Green Stuff 
Kevlar, and the EBC pads have been great on both the Spider's, so I don't 
know if they were a factor in the warped rotors.  A fellow Digester also 
suggested that maybe there are deposits on the rotors from the pads, and 
pointed me to a BMW site that discusses that, but I haven't pulled the 
wheels yet and inspected the rotors.

Dean

At 02:17 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote:

> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: [alfa] 164 front rotor brands
>
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:49:25 -0400 "Dean W. Cains" <dwc@domain.elided> wrote:
> >  I ask because I recently installed a set of Brembo front
> > rotors on our Volvo 850 Turbo, and they very quickly became seriously
> > warped.  The previous 2 sets of ATE rotors lasted a combined 110,000 miles
> > with no such difficulties.'74 & '87 Spider Veloce's
>
> i have to say that i am quite suprised. brembo is one of the high end
> brake manufacturers, and on those occasions when i ran brembo
> rotors on my milano, i was always quite satisfied with them.
>
> some of the off-brand rotors were extremely warp prone in my experience.
>
> richard
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