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Mark_Solesbury:
Si
Thanks for joining the group!
Dont go to China...
From what i have heard, X-Eng products may well be ever so slightly overpriced, but the support that you lot give is well worth the difference :)
Saffy:
It's good to see a company representative come onto a forum and support the discussion on their product in such an open way :clap:
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: Tommo on January 16, 2008, 19:02:20 ---If they are paying over £100 for the caliper then i would be looking at somthing else. and the other £100 is more than enough to make a bracket and a disc (they havent even drilled the disc which would lighten it no end.
Most cars with rear discs use a caliper with the same mechanism pretty much, its just they have a hydraulic bit as well.
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I know the sort of callipers you are refering to but TBH they are nowhere near the quality of the unit X-Eng use. In fact many disk-handbrake type callipers are unreliable in their orignal application, but furthermore the pads used in the calliper are designed to work when imersed in mud, which typical car types are not. For a LR the X-Eng calliper is probably a bit of overkill, unless you regularly park your fully loaded LR and trailer on a 1 in 4, but it's reasuring to know it's more than up to the job.
Had I got the money I'd be having one and I know for a fact that I can't make one myself for any less.
Guardian.:
IM NOT that genned up on these i admit, but , you get the complete kit, a caliper, disc and all the relevant brackets and bits ect to fit, and its £200 mark.
from the general concensus its good quality parts and not chinese crap.
i know £200 is a very different ammount of money to different people, but looking at the facts, it doesnt sound dear for a quality component such as this to me, im not saying its cheap, it isnt, but its definately not overpriced by much if it is at all.
you got to be realistic, to many people look at some of th crappy components in the magazines and compare prices, but the goods HAVE to be like or like.
not only that i gather its all 100% british, is that not worth £50 aswell alone.
X-Eng Simon:
--- Quote from: Saffy on January 16, 2008, 22:06:29 ---It's good to see a company representative come onto a forum and support the discussion on their product in such an open way :clap:
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Thanks for the welcome!
I'm pretty active on the LR4x4 forum as SimonR (as well as difflock & pirate). I think the forums are tremendously important and have given us all a sense of community otherwise impossible.
I always meant to join the Mud club - we usually seemed to wind up camped next door to you at Billing.
Something my friend Chris (GBMud on LR4x4) said was that you remember the quality of something long after what it cost. Although that's not an excuse for making stuff expensive, thinking about it though - he's right. Things like my Mobile Storage Systems Store-draw. I have no idea how much I paid (though remember thinking it was expensive) but I use it every day, it's brilliantly made and I'd buy another one like a shot.
Si
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