Re: [Amc-list] APD Caliper Resleeve

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My counter to him would be, "If I wasn't interested in cosmetics I'd put newer style brakes on it"...
Really thats generaly the only reason people stay with the four piston calipers.
I agree with you, for that kind of money I'd expect them to be done right and look right.
  I'd tell him," Fine, I'll pay the d@#*ed shipping both ways, I'll also not be doing anymore business here and I got a big mouth too".
  If it's truly cosmetic and most people don't care, then he won't have any trouble sending it out to someone who doesn't care now will he?

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

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From: Don Johnson <donjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Guys,
> I don't know what you're experience has been with APD but here's my story.
> I sent my calipers down to APD for rebuilding. Not cheap, $400 + shipping both 
> ways.
> I had to ship my calipers to him because he said he needed to check out my 
> calipers to see if they were rebuildable. That's okay.  He also told me that he 
> had none 
> in stock. I took that to mean that he would be rebuiding my calipers. Anyway 
> he had them for more than 2 weeks and sent them back to me.
> On inspecting them, 1 caliper is fine but the other has part of the groove 
> where the dust boot goes, missing. By that I mean that it looks like they 
> cut the groove bigger to accomodate a different dust boot and the cutter 
> went through the side of the caliper and about 3/4 inch of the side of the 
> dust boot is showing.
> I sent them 2 emails with an accompanying photo to ask what was going on. 
> They did not respond to either of them. That may be because there was an 
> attachment (the photo) included with the email.
> I sent a regular email, without photo attached, and Doug called me right 
> away. That is where things started to go downhill.
> First he said that they did not rebuild my original calipers for me.My 
> misunderstanding.
> Second, he said that he has seen the problem I described about the dust boot 
> on calipers from the factory and I should not worry about it.
> Well, the way I look at it, I sent him 2 good calipers and he sent me back 
> only 1 good one. I think he's trying to stick me with a "second" and told 
> him so.
> I offered to ship him the problem caliper at my expense if he would ship me back 
> a caliper where the dust boot is not exposed.
> 
> He countered saying I would have to pay the shipping both ways because the 
> "problem" with the caliper was purely cosmetic.
> 
> Well, that's not my belief and I would like to know if anyone out there has ever 
> seen 1970 Bendix calipers with part of the dust boot seat missing.
> 
> Right now, I'm not a big fan of the product or customer relations of this 
> supplier.
> Don
> 1970 AMX
> "The older I get, the better I was."
> 
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