Share BRAKEMOTIVE Long term use review...I want to know
02-26-2012, 08:56 AM
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EDIT: Looked over my post and realized I said rears the first time. Oops. Sorry, those are definitely the fronts. Rears aren't as bad.
02-28-2012, 10:01 AM
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Ok, got word from BrakeMotive. But, more importantly...found out more I din't want to know about the previous owner.
I bought the car several months ago from someone named Justin Croom. He said when I bought the car that they brakes had 5k miles on them, he bought them from BrakeMotive on Ebay. The rotors were clean when I inspected the car before I bought it from him. They started showing stress cracks within a few weeks of my ownership (i.e. less then 1k miles).
Honestly though, I've been finding out more and more (specifically yesterday, when I opened up my rear diff and did a bit of back checking on the guy over the internet) that he is totally full of s!@#. He blew up the rear end the day before I bought the car and never mentioned it to me. I had agreed to buy the car a week before the day I actually bought it, when it was working perfect. And less then a week later he blew the diff doing who the hell knows what. So all I've got to go on right now is his word and that isn't exactly reassuring to me.
So the brakes might be 30k miles old. Or...something. I don't really know. But I don't think I can blame BrakeMotive given the other info I've found out about the guy.
I might be heading down to his area to go strangle him, though.
I bought the car several months ago from someone named Justin Croom. He said when I bought the car that they brakes had 5k miles on them, he bought them from BrakeMotive on Ebay. The rotors were clean when I inspected the car before I bought it from him. They started showing stress cracks within a few weeks of my ownership (i.e. less then 1k miles).
Honestly though, I've been finding out more and more (specifically yesterday, when I opened up my rear diff and did a bit of back checking on the guy over the internet) that he is totally full of s!@#. He blew up the rear end the day before I bought the car and never mentioned it to me. I had agreed to buy the car a week before the day I actually bought it, when it was working perfect. And less then a week later he blew the diff doing who the hell knows what. So all I've got to go on right now is his word and that isn't exactly reassuring to me.
So the brakes might be 30k miles old. Or...something. I don't really know. But I don't think I can blame BrakeMotive given the other info I've found out about the guy.
I might be heading down to his area to go strangle him, though.
02-28-2012, 05:19 PM
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Ok, got word from BrakeMotive. But, more importantly...found out more I din't want to know about the previous owner.
I bought the car several months ago from someone named Justin Croom. He said when I bought the car that they brakes had 5k miles on them, he bought them from BrakeMotive on Ebay. The rotors were clean when I inspected the car before I bought it from him. They started showing stress cracks within a few weeks of my ownership (i.e. less then 1k miles).
Honestly though, I've been finding out more and more (specifically yesterday, when I opened up my rear diff and did a bit of back checking on the guy over the internet) that he is totally full of s!@#. He blew up the rear end the day before I bought the car and never mentioned it to me. I had agreed to buy the car a week before the day I actually bought it, when it was working perfect. And less then a week later he blew the diff doing who the hell knows what. So all I've got to go on right now is his word and that isn't exactly reassuring to me.
So the brakes might be 30k miles old. Or...something. I don't really know. But I don't think I can blame BrakeMotive given the other info I've found out about the guy.
I might be heading down to his area to go strangle him, though.
I bought the car several months ago from someone named Justin Croom. He said when I bought the car that they brakes had 5k miles on them, he bought them from BrakeMotive on Ebay. The rotors were clean when I inspected the car before I bought it from him. They started showing stress cracks within a few weeks of my ownership (i.e. less then 1k miles).
Honestly though, I've been finding out more and more (specifically yesterday, when I opened up my rear diff and did a bit of back checking on the guy over the internet) that he is totally full of s!@#. He blew up the rear end the day before I bought the car and never mentioned it to me. I had agreed to buy the car a week before the day I actually bought it, when it was working perfect. And less then a week later he blew the diff doing who the hell knows what. So all I've got to go on right now is his word and that isn't exactly reassuring to me.
So the brakes might be 30k miles old. Or...something. I don't really know. But I don't think I can blame BrakeMotive given the other info I've found out about the guy.
I might be heading down to his area to go strangle him, though.
If the rear end was and is fine when you bought it, what's the problem? If he blew it and and repaired it, so what? These rear ends grenade all the time.
02-28-2012, 06:36 PM
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I know all about previous owner bullshit.. I bought an 80k mile LT1 formy for my brother... converted it to TA and shipped it to him... well, It had full bolt ons, upgraded fuel pump (trap door mod) and an aluminum intake elbow with a plug in the bottom... Hmmm??? I found all this stuff after I get it home... Come to find out, it had been cammed and sprayed for who knows how many miles.. Once my retarded, lead footed brother got behind the wheel, that cars days were numbered... It blew on him about a month later... During the teardown, the builder said it had been beat pretty bad and had been running lean... Oh well, used car but damn..... that was a douchebag seller...
My 99 WS6 was the same way.. I bought it from a guy on here "LOLO07". He flips Craigslist cars constantly... I bought a beat to **** fbody to say the least... (not a POS anymore though).... In the end, you never know what you get when you buy used.. even if that bitch has 5k miles on it, assume the owner did it in 1st gear at 7k rpm in a corn field... everybody is out to get you bro...
My 99 WS6 was the same way.. I bought it from a guy on here "LOLO07". He flips Craigslist cars constantly... I bought a beat to **** fbody to say the least... (not a POS anymore though).... In the end, you never know what you get when you buy used.. even if that bitch has 5k miles on it, assume the owner did it in 1st gear at 7k rpm in a corn field... everybody is out to get you bro...
02-28-2012, 07:18 PM
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Well, if they do indeed have 30k on them then you cant bitch about it... It would take me 3 years to put that on my car and I dont drive it very hard as far as brakes are concerned... Id say 30k miles driven by a douche bag should be a testament to their quality....lol