Everyone should have an email with a tracking number, except the one set going to Canada (have to go into PO for customs forms), and the gentleman who sent me a money order, waiting for him to give me the shipping address.
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Just ordered my X-drilled / slotted rotors! Can't wait to get my hands dirty on this.
Unfortunately, shipping takes forever to CAN Yours should be going out tomorrow sometime, Wed latest.
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06:32 PM
Forced_Firebird Member
Posts: 82 From: South Florida Registered: Oct 2008
Are all the bracket sets spoken for or are / will there be more available?
Actually, Fenton, we are considering offering these individually, but the price will have to increase due to the time it takes to set the machine up for only 2 parts (2 setups for the 2 diff parts).
We can keep the group pricing at a discount, so try and see if you can gather up others, but if you would like a set we can make them. $150 shipped to the US and $165 shipped to Canada for a single set.
New group pricing for the next batch are going to be $140 shipped to the US and $155 shipped to Canada (you save $10 if you can get others to buy as well)
Thanks everyone for your business, hope you enjoy the new found stopping power.
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06:36 PM
Fenton Member
Posts: 27 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009
The seller is a really nice guy, with all the part numbers X-referenced from the other thread; These are the rotors you use.
I bought another set off him for my miata a couple years ago (They were OEM Brembos Xdrilled/slotted), put quite a few hard miles on her and the brakes showed very little wear / no cracks etc.
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Just got mine in the mail today. (Postal Service messed up the box, but no damaged goods.) I hope to put it all together next week. Brackets look great.
Well I am definitely in for a full set. I'm not in a hurry for them as I'm not going to start on the suspension until fall / winter; so I can hold out to see if there are 4 others that want to jump on the volume discount. I'll get back in touch with you when I get working on it. What would the turn around time be for making one set?
------------------ --------------------------------- John Fenton 1986 Fiero GT 5 speed
Yeah, shipping always takes a little longer to CAN I haven't heard back from the gentleman who sent the money order, although I fortunately found the envelope yesterday with the return address, so they will all be shipped!
As far as turn around time, they can be made within a couple days now. We have a jig setup that just bolts right to the machine. We hadn't done this job in a long time, so all that stuff was discarded or re-used for other jobs. Couldn't spend the time or money to re-make the jig just for one or two sets, so because the amount of people for that last batch, it was worth it for us to make a nice setup that is easily setup/broken down. The only bad part is when we make just a few sets, we still have to buy a 12' bar of stock, hence the slight increase for single sets, plus the extra time to put the jig on the machine for just a couple parts...
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Is there any special preparation needed before painting these and what kind of paint is the best to use?
Thanks.
Clean them with a solvent and paint. You can use whatever you like, but for durability with the heat, I would suggest at least caliper paint, or high temp engine enamel due to the conditions. Powdercoating is the best, but not always in one's budget.
I'm bumping this to the top because I have yet to receive my brackets. I have some of the other parts I need for the swap yet I ordered the brackets some time ago and still haven't gotten them. I guess either I was forgotten about or............
My questions now are, first, when can I get the brackets, and of course, why wasn't a PM sent to me if there was a problem. As an active duty soldier, I don't always have time to check messages and get back to people right away and I'm usually late for events (showing up at the last hour of FieroRama) but I eventually to check email and messages and nothing was sent my way. How is that possible?
Bump. Still empty handed with no brackets. Fiero is going away for the winter and would like to get them before it goes into storage.
Sorry haven't checked back here in a while. Please email your name to john at 60inclusive.com and I will go through the records and see if they were delivered. All packages were sent insured US mail, the package for the gentleman that send me a money order was late (and my fault) because I had lost the only copy of the address. I sent emails and never heard back (return address was on the envelope, not in emails), later found it under some papers on the desk and they were shipped to that return address.
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Forced_Firebird Member
Posts: 82 From: South Florida Registered: Oct 2008
all4u, I apologize for any inconvenience, but the package was mailed via Priority Mail (2-3 day delivery) on the 20th of September at 10:34am and the Post Office cannot confirm weather or not the package was delivered and I have filed a claim (assuming you are in Addison, as that's the only package shipped close to Chicago as your forum profile suggests). They have started an investigation and I have to call back in 48hrs to check the status. If they lost it, I will send you another set out of my own pocket until they can clear the claim. If the USPS denies another claim (they denied my last $200 claim) then they will no longer be my primary provider. Again, sorry about this, but it is out of my hands at this point and we generally do not check tracking on every single package shipped since we have a high volume of in and outgoing packages, usually someone will contact us directly if there was an issue as we cannot be on every forum every day.
Sincerely,
-John
PS: Why were my emails not replied to in regards to the delivery address? EDIT: Last email send on Aug 29th to your hot-shot account.
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Oct 8th, 2010
Forced_Firebird Member
Posts: 82 From: South Florida Registered: Oct 2008
USPS basically told me to stuff it in a long winded letter about how they are sorry they couldn't live up to their service agreement, and they hope I can continue using their service to allow them to provide better service in the future. What a crock. This is the last time this will happen as they will no longer be my provider. The rest of the parts made it safely to the others and there was all 10 sets made and shipped, it's just lousy that because of negligence of the USPS we have to cover the damages on our own even though insurance was purchased.
Apparently, recently this is a major issue with ebay sellers as well...
all4u, I apologize for this and will correct it only because we strive to make our customers happy. Please give me a little time since there was another refund we had to give (plus new gaskets) because Manley made me some custom valves for a customer and they were out of tolerance on 4 of the 12 valves which wasn't caught until the engine was assembled (so I took $$ out of my pocket yet again to replace the gaskets). If you would rather have a refund, please let me know, but your parts were made and sent just like the rest of them in a small flat-rate shipping box.
In the morning I will be contacting the USPS Office of Inspector General and seeing what I can do since this year we have lost several hundred dollars (most in the last few months) due to pure negligence and lack of commitment, as well as getting very rude people on the other end of the line. USPS used to be the best provider, but even in this batch of packages people have reported damaged boxes, I just sent the top end of a motor to California from here in Fl and the customer reported it was badly damaged, but because we used a mountain of bubble wrap, everything made it safely ($2000 in parts and was almost $200 to ship).
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I have had at least 10 packages returned as "Undeliverable" in the past year by the USPS, and when I resent them with the SAME address label, they USUALLY got there the second time. The USPS is not reliable any more, plain and simple. Their rates are going through the roof while their service gets worse by the day. Reading this finally gave me the push to just use UPS from now on.
I haven't been able to jump on here that much as of recent. I'm getting ready to go back to the sand box (deployment) and haven't had much time to do anything else. Please don't take this the wrong way, but for a while there, I thought this was a scam and decided to just cut my losses and say whatever. I didn't hear anything back from anyone and thought maybe I got ripped off. I decided that since my car needed brakes, to get the brackets, and upgrade but I waited and never got any brackets. So I returned the calipers and rotors I bought and got stock stuff to put on and I'm happy with the performance of the brakes right now. Please just send my money back to me, I'm sorry this didn't work out, but I needed brakes and thought maybe I was getting zonked. It kinda sucks when your driver's front caliper sticks at times and when you step hard on the brakes, the car makes a left turn!
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GlennGdman Member
Posts: 223 From: Harrisville RI, usa Registered: Jul 2003
Yours should be going out tomorrow sometime, Wed latest.
