Calipers

[james accordino]

--- Kevin Phillips <kevphill at yahoo.com> wrote:
> AutoZone have great prices on calipers. They are
> remanufactured by Fenco
> using new castings. Infact they look totally new.
> I have now seen 2 calipers and they look to be high
> quality and have a
> lifetime warrantee.
> Unfortunately both units were the wrong ones, first
> time wrong side, second
> time was a nice G60 for the front. 3rd time lucky

I agree with you.  Big Dorf truck has dual piston,
full floating calipers.  Early in my ownership (200k
miles) Dealer $400+, no rebuilds.  Later on rebuilds
were available at about $150.  Went to Autozone last
year for cal. kits, and he tells me their "lifetime"
rebuilds were like $30 something each.  Easy decision.
 No problems with them so far.  However the REAR
calipers for an Audi quattro were still very expensive
with a big core charge, and they had a lead time to
order.  Things may have changed in the last year plus,
but IME all quattro rear calipers, rebuilt or not, are
big coin, with a big core charge (because so many are
shot) and NO ONE has these laying around.
Like I said, maybe things have changed, but at the
time I did them, it was the only solution that made
$en$e.  I've done 3 sets of quats, and 2 sets of FWD
rear calipers, and I don't think I've spent $100. yet.
 Total.

My $.02
Jim Accordino