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Originally Posted by Unclemeaty
At ~33,000 miles, my stock rotors are starting to make stopping a little bit of a shaken choir. I'd say by the spring time I need some replacements for all 4 wheels.
Stock rotors are not cheap for these cars, and aftermarket Stillen and other brands are also pretty high in price. This led me to EBay, where a 10 star seller has an entire kit of either slotted or drilled rotors with ceramic pads for ~$170 to ~$250 for all four wheels.
I'd probably just toss the brake pads and go with some street proven Hawks or another name brand pads.
So what about the rotors? Anyone try em? Do they fit sport version 370z?
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One of the troubles with buying "eBay rotors" is that there is no such thing -- just companies looking for the lowest cost marketing outlet. While not all sellers are bad, many are small operations using Centric (who is not a true OE supplier to my knowledge and is not a manufacturer -- they just source from low cost manufacturing countries like many others do) or other blanks and sophomoric finishing techniques. There is very little in actual quality control as they do not have the staff to perform those tasks. They also struggle to provide customer service after the sale in the event anything goes wrong.
Others turn to NAPA or other big chain store, who buy cheap white box rotors in bulk from the lowest cost supplier of the day. One set might give good enough results, but the next might be horrible. Of course, they just replace a bad set, which is great for those customers who have plenty of unallocated time on their hands and don't mind the hassle of taking the same parts on and off their cars repeatedly.
Most people are better off shopping for quality parts to begin with. Obviously, look for the best deals you can as there are specials from time to time. But trying to save money up front that ends up costing more later (in time, effort and money) is not usually the best way to go.