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Wilwood Midilite woes

PeterV - 17/8/11 at 07:18 PM

Super fast delivery of Wilwood midilite 4 piston brake set up complete kit with 285mm x 24mm discs, pads & brackets all looked good until it came to fitting them.

The Callipers are imperial and the 10mm bolts are a real tight fit. Not even a thou of wiggle room.
Calliper mounting centres are 0.2mm wider that the bracket centres. Oh and both sides are perfect, perfectly wrong!
The callipers will not fit a 24mm thick disc.

OK hit the phone. Find out that the callipers are wrong for the disc coz the kit has been mixed up. Then we find out that on occasion the calliper mounting holes need to be drilled out coz they are sometimes to tight.

Excuse me but at Ł500+ you would hope that the damn things were finished. I can cope with a kit mix up coz we all make mistakes but having to take a drill to finish a product of this suposed value.

Me says NOOOOOO!!!!

But for service and support I can't fault Rally Design so far. New calipers pre-mounted to brackets on the way with full paid for return of bad ones. Well this is the plan anyway.

snakebelly - 17/8/11 at 08:11 PM

That's why I use rally design, if something goes wrong they put it right, Burton's on the other hand would probably have charged you to return them and that's if they could be arsed to answer the phone!

motorcycle_mayhem - 17/8/11 at 09:13 PM

I had a fair bit of 'fettling' when installing the Powerlite (Cortina) kit on a Westfield (..and yes, it had Cortina uprights, etc..). I had an enormous amount of 'grief' fitting a Powerlite (Capri) kit on a R1oT... however, with a good few hours, a pint (or two) of real ale, the result was very good (even sober).

I'm different, I expect some grief.

One thing though, Rally Design have always been helpful, resolution of problems is something that concerns them.

HiSpec....

norfolkluego - 17/8/11 at 10:28 PM

I've just fitted the Wilwoods I bought from Carl on here, straight on, no fiddling, probably the simplest job I've ever done on the car

PeterV - 17/8/11 at 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by norfolkluego
I've just fitted the Wilwoods I bought from Carl on here, straight on, no fiddling, probably the simplest job I've ever done on the car

No Fare!!

I was expecting it to be a snip of a job.

Shuks, just my luck!

norfolkluego - 17/8/11 at 11:19 PM

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Originally posted by PeterV

quote:
Originally posted by norfolkluego
I've just fitted the Wilwoods I bought from Carl on here, straight on, no fiddling, probably the simplest job I've ever done on the car

No Fare!!

I was expecting it to be a snip of a job.

Shuks, just my luck!

Shop at LCB, you know you're dealing with good people who know their stuff (and we didn't get looted)

Norfolkluegojnr - 18/8/11 at 07:49 AM

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Shop at LCB, you know you're dealing with good people who know their stuff (and we didn't get looted)

Says the man who left his garage door open, with the lights on, on the worst week of looting we've ever had

We're you trying to tempt a Norwich riot?

norfolkluego - 18/8/11 at 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Norfolkluegojnr

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Shop at LCB, you know you're dealing with good people who know their stuff (and we didn't get looted)

Says the man who left his garage door open, with the lights on, on the worst week of looting we've ever had

We're you trying to tempt a Norwich riot?

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If London was anything to go by, leaving the door open was a good idea. Your stuff still gets knicked but they don't rip the door off it's hinges to get it.

PeterV - 18/8/11 at 11:40 AM

Errm ummm is it safe to mention the R word or will it be 4 years banged up