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Old 02-26-2019, 12:19 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TobinH View Post
I was looking at these as well...

My concern is, coming from someone who works in manufacturing, is the QC process. We can generally trust a company like Akebono to be quite diligent, since a brake failure can lead to big lawsuits. Since these are cast aluminum parts, you have to be aware of potential voids - yikes.

I know that Akebono has manufacturing facilities in China, it's entirely possible that these calipers are made on the same tooling as the legit items. It's not unknown for old tooling to go missing, and show up in the factory down the road. It's pretty trivial to avoid the raised logo, these are often inserts anyways. Old tooling is okay, usually just leading to a heavier than ideal part, a problem for the factory but not really for the end user. But are they being checked properly? Is the rest of the process reliable?

Legit Akebono calipers aren't very expensive, and certainly cheaper than a crash.
That's a good point about missing tooling. When I was talking about the raised akebono logo, I was trying to say that it's harder to fake a raised logo than one that is actually stamped into the metal.

I was operating under the assumption that these were re manufactured akebonos, but maybe that's not the case
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