bluemoose
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- Joined
- Sep 13, 2015
- Location
- Hurdle Mills, NC
Just venting on my experiences trying to buy brake parts for my '90 740 daily driver. It is non-ABS and has Girling front rotors with ATE rears, and decent rotors for this are practically unobtainable. I've been running the el-cheapo Centrics but they have been ground to dust in only 20k miles of street driving. At the time I bought them they were the only rotors I could find that would fit. I am running a set of EBC GreenStuff pads that took about a month to get, and they have also ground to dust along with the rotors. It's literally metal-on-metal in a couple of spots so I've had to park the car while I attempt to find more brake parts.
After a week of scouring the internet earlier in the summer, I discovered that StopTech *supposedly* makes rotors that will fit, at least according to their website. Summit Racing had the correct part numbers on their website, so I ordered a set. Going on 4 weeks later I'm cancelling the order after they have been playing the whole game of "expected ship date", which keeps moving every time I ask about it. It is frustrating as hell that a vendor would advertise something as being available on their site and not disclosing up front that you are going to have to wait months to get it, if it ever actually becomes available. This was my first and last attempt at buying StopTech products. I was skeptical that they were really any better than Centric or other cheap brands, but I will never find out.
I realize there is not much of a market for 'performance' rotors on a Volvo 740, but manufacturers shouldn't advertise a part that they never intend to actually stock. At this point I'm just going to try NAPA to get another set of el-cheapos that will be toast in short order again. They stop fine, but they don't last long.
It seems like if you want to get something quality like a DBA rotor, it will require a custom brake conversion. If anyone knows of any good rotors and pads that will fit a non-ABS Girling 740, I'd love to know about them!
After a week of scouring the internet earlier in the summer, I discovered that StopTech *supposedly* makes rotors that will fit, at least according to their website. Summit Racing had the correct part numbers on their website, so I ordered a set. Going on 4 weeks later I'm cancelling the order after they have been playing the whole game of "expected ship date", which keeps moving every time I ask about it. It is frustrating as hell that a vendor would advertise something as being available on their site and not disclosing up front that you are going to have to wait months to get it, if it ever actually becomes available. This was my first and last attempt at buying StopTech products. I was skeptical that they were really any better than Centric or other cheap brands, but I will never find out.
I realize there is not much of a market for 'performance' rotors on a Volvo 740, but manufacturers shouldn't advertise a part that they never intend to actually stock. At this point I'm just going to try NAPA to get another set of el-cheapos that will be toast in short order again. They stop fine, but they don't last long.
It seems like if you want to get something quality like a DBA rotor, it will require a custom brake conversion. If anyone knows of any good rotors and pads that will fit a non-ABS Girling 740, I'd love to know about them!