996 Brake upgrade problems

[4WheelDrifter]

looks like the problem has been solved, GSF have sent the wrong discs!

thanks for you help guys!

D'oh. That sounds like the sort of thing my local GSF would do.
I'm glad you've sorted that.

[Corey]

Seat carriers cost me £12.74 each 6 months ago.(trade price from a stealer) Machining cost me nothing 'cause I work in an engineering machine shop, but it would be cheeky for anyone to charge much more than an hour or so for labour.

Grant

Any machine shop is going to charge for a setup (normally 1 hour minimum) charge plus the machining time per bracket, the more brackets you do the more this setup charge is spread.
If your company is only going to charge an hour than you can cost up doing 400 brackets for me then and I will put a few on the shelf.
Factor in the cost of taking them to the machine shop, having to carry stock in the hope someone may buy them at some point and (heaven forbid) make a little bit of profit to develop other products.
There is always going to be someone who can do something cheaper or at mates rates but who do you blame if something doesn't fit or work correctly?
Personally I would prefer to buy a warranted part that I know is going to fit.

Or is that being cheeky???

RS2 carriers bolt straight on but they cost about twice the price of our machined SEAT brackets (£95+VAT for the pair btw )

smith9669,

What caliper part number do you have?

[Smith_S2]

the caliper part numbers i have is

996 351 425
996 351 426

different part numbers as they will be handed.

[CliveH]

Correct part numbers

[Smith_S2]

Does any body have the part number for A8/S8 discs form GSF?

I ordered discs GSF part number 60297 and they are telling me that it's the wrong disc?

323x30 with HAT height of 60mm please anybody???

[S2central.net]

And can we cross-check that with the correct Audi part number for the right 323x30 disc - I wasn't aware there was two flavours until this thread (unless GSF have sent you a disc from a Mercedes or somethin)

Paul

[FRED]

Corey,
Very eloquently put but I only gave an honest answer as to what the brackets cost me. Whats wrong with that?

Any machine shop is going to charge for a setup (normally 1 hour minimum) charge plus the machining time per bracket, the more brackets you do the more this setup charge is spread.

Agreed if you are machining a batch on a n.c. but manually milling one set as I did. Set up and machining is easily done in an hour.

If your company is only going to charge an hour than you can cost up doing 400 brackets for me then and I will put a few on the shelf.

I'll do you a price for 400 no problem but you might get a shock at our hourly rate, it could easily be double what you'd be charged down your way. Blame the oil industrly for making Aberdeen an expensive place for engineering

Factor in the cost of taking them to the machine shop, having to carry stock in the hope someone may buy them at some point and (heaven forbid) make a little bit of profit to develop other products.

Luckily I was able to carry the brackets in my lunch box so transport costs were kept to a minimum . Charge what you need to make a profit Corey, I do.

There is always going to be someone who can do something cheaper or at mates rates but who do you blame if something doesn't fit or work correctly?
Personally I would prefer to buy a warranted part that I know is going to fit.

I don't do mates rates, I don't suppose you do either, but I can know that any component I/we machine is to the highest standard. The inspection processes that our work goes through before and after it has left us mean I know just who to blame if something doesn't fit etc.

Or is that being cheeky???

Cheeky I don't mind, or thought provoking, or inquisitive, or even a decent bit of banter is fine. Personally I think your price of £95 for the brackets is pretty good, it's certainly less than I would charge but it doesn't alter the fact that it would only take me an hour to machine 'em. .

Grant.

[Smith_S2]

these are the discs that GSF sent me

Anybody notice the difference

[Al Wyn]

Does any body have the part number for A8/S8 discs form GSF?

I ordered discs GSF part number 60297 and they are telling me that it's the wrong disc?

323x30 with HAT height of 60mm please anybody???

Just checked with my man at G+S and 60297 is A8 323x30 with 60mm hat

[spink]

Got a feeling that could be a S4tt disc,i used them a couple of years ago on a conversion.When i said to GSF(heathrow) i wanted S4tt discs they came back initially with Volvo S40 T4 discs .

[Smith_S2]

Just checked with my man at G+S and 60297 is A8 323x30 with 60mm hat

Yeah your spink the discs from GSF p/n is 60297. Basically GSF totally fooked up but they Apologised are even collecting the discs themselves.

Thanks for all your input guys

cheeRS
Smith9669