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Yeah, thats what I was asking a few posts up if the amazon rotors are actually OEM? Has anyone here actually ordered them and compared them to OEM to be sure. Its certainly the best price!
So I may be grasping at straws here but the ones on amazon and parts geek aren't technically the OE part. Based on comparing the pictures this must just be a case of "missing the porsche (tax) sticker" but for some reason when I called sunset they dismissed the partsgeek products as aftermarket. I didn't think the guy was just trying to conjure business but he wasn't willing to price match.
The OP said he purchased his discs from Parts.com which lists the parts as OE with the correct retail price of $1,094. All the other non-porsche specialty sites show the retail price as $1,015.
I normally couldn't care less, just hate the confusion for what must be a particularly rare rotor....that and the 250 dollar difference (shipping included) between buying these rotors at sunset vs partsgeek.
The problem is not that I need the same function, I literally need the same rotor with all the same markings (I can explain my way out of missing the box/bag). I have a stealership willing to take all my supplied parts and install. If I bring all genuine parts they will notate that on the records. Since I don't know if/when I will ever sell the P!G I would prefer to keep as many records there as possible (sounds crazy, I realize).
For those who are wondering Here are the full part numbers for a 2009 Turbo S (not PCCB) from a representative at sunset who looked up my VIN.
Hey spooltime quick question. What year is your CTTS? Mine is an 09 and the rear calipers are a pain and have to be removed b/c there is a non removable bar on mine instead of a pin. You are lucky to have your design.
Mine is a 2006. I had to remove my rear calipers in order to replace the discs, so I'm not sure I understand your comment. If it were pads only, then yeah, it would likely be easier.
Mine is a 2006. I had to remove my rear calipers in order to replace the discs, so I'm not sure I understand your comment. If it were pads only, then yeah, it would likely be easier.
Yes was talking about pads only. I have to remove the rear calipers just to do the pads
RacingBrake, just interested but what's the reason why you made the rotors thinner than OEM? That and the fact that the OEM rotors are cheaper than yours makes it a hard decision to buys yours instead...
OEM rotors were made with standard cast iron, for lighter vehicles they are fine but for heavy SUV they get warped easily, so instead of using better iron they simply increased the volume of the rotor - make them bigger and thicker but too heavy of a rotor can truly make the car under-performed - Cayenne is no difference.
RB is the only brake company makes OE replacement brake rotors with improved design and material, instead of copying from OE sizes and metallurgy like others.
First our cast iron are alloyed and heat treated to improve the dimensional stability prevent it from warping and cracking under heat stress.
Second our vane design is of curved vane and directional (vs. OE's straight vane and non-directional) for a much more efficient air cooling to further reduce the change of rotor deformation and per-mature failure.
Our rotors are "directional" made of best casting metallurgy (alloyed and heat-treated) with better designs. So your choice can either be:
The same heavy/bulky & non performing OE replacement.
Or from RB who has built true high performance two piece light weight rotors for the toughest America's super muscle cars such as Corvette, Camaro, CTS-V, Challenger/Viper etc. since early 2000.
Why we don't offer 38mm thickness because we think it's nu-necessarily oversized. When we design a disc, air gap and friction plate thickness is our main criteria than the total thickness.
Just compare some similar OE replacement that we offer for the comparable SUV (size indicated are OE sizes), and look the weight table for weight reduction to OE.
Hmm. I'd much rather have a rotor that's the same size as OEM. I haven't found the braking performance of my CTTS to be lacking in the slightest and while I understand the advantages of having a lighter rotational mass, on a SUV that weighs what this one does it's just not that important to me.
If your rotors were 38mm like OEM and less costly than OEM than I'd consider buying them...
05-03-2016 | 01:48 PM
