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Originally Posted by mav1178
Centric and Stoptech are 100% legit..... and made in China. not like anyone cares other than "oh this is made in this country so it must be crap"
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Originally Posted by finch1750
For fuck sake just Google Centric if you dont believe the "ricers" here. These are the same rotors recommend by most people that track since they are quality and cheap
They are one of the biggest brake companies around.
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We have the big book of brake manufactures at work and people would be very surprised to find out that the name on the rotor is not always who made them. There are only about 400 plants that manufacture rotors around the whole world. They can be making 3 or even 4 different "brands" right beside each other. It doesn't matter one little bit where the rotor is made since they are made to the customers spec. If the customer wants a cheap ass rotors that they can sell on Ebay for $10 we can make it here. They want a $1500 rotor for F1 cars we can make that as well but it could also be made in China. Just tell us what you want and how much you want it for and we can make it. So can the plants in Germany, China, Japan, India, Korea and Lower Slovovia. The only rule that can be consistently applied is that the cheaper the rotor is the worse the material and tolerances are. You can NOT make a top quality rotor for a dirt cheap price even in the emerging regions. Somthing has to give to meet price points. It doesn't mean that a less expensive rotor is bad just that it is not as good as it could be. People need to forget the whole sweeping "Brand X makes great/horrible parts" statements since even in a certain brand there will be high end and low end parts to cover the market range.
Some companies/plants are better than others of course and can make those tight spec parts that many of the others can not. We have taken several large OEM contracts away from our major competitor simply because they could not meet some very tight specs. The other company is probably
the go to company on this forum and they could not meet the requirements whereas I doubt many here even knew we make brake components at all much less that we are one of the top three highest volume manufacturers in the world for them. We are constantly testing our competitors quality and know where the other brands stack up against us for both good and bad. And, before anybody, asks NO I can not share that data or I would quickly become unemployed.
So in summary if you buy dirt cheap rotors they will be crap no matter who's name is on them. If you stick to mid priced ones for street or light track use they will be fine no matter who's name is on them. If you buy expensive high end rotors you will have some quality. The only caution on any level is don't get suckered into paying big bucks for a cheap rotor because it has grooves holes or other things to make it seem like a good one when really it isn't.