Looking for opinions...

[fancyTBI]

After seeing @Caman96 and @Spareparts threads with TTX that is what I am going to get as well.

 

[someotherguy]

Y'all falling in love with brand names just go on amazon and order some SCITOO and slap it together, call it done.

I'm kidding of course. When looking for a cheap UCA to help "fix" my previous 300 SRT8 after my buddy wrecked it, was going for making it mobile enough to be driven up on a trailer for the new buyer, I started checking around for who had what. There's a mind-blowing amount of no-name/white box/junk in a plastic sack auto parts out there; who'd have ever thought it? Surely a lot of this crap makes its way into "brand name" packaging and we pay more for it. The seemingly made-up-outta-thin-air "brand" names you see on amazon that just scream "lowest grade Chinesium you can buy" and yet these places exist, and apparently people are buying it.

I bought SCITOO because it was cheap and I was simply hacking a wrecked car back together. I mean, I didn't even wanna spend the $50 for the UCA. I used a few bucks worth of black iron pipe and couplers from the Ace hardware to replace the broken strut. The strut tower area was damaged enough that I could only slide the UCA bolts through to hold it in place but mission accomplished; I drove the wrecked car up the ramps of the buyer's trailer. There was some complaining from the taco'd wheel that I'd beat back into mostly-round with the sledgehammer, but it made it, so it was a win. Gotta tell you, getting that car mobile again inside a 10x20 storage unit in July heat, while recovering from covid, was not fun!

(Disclaimer: buyer owned a body shop and was informed 100% what I was doing to hack this thing back together.)

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Richard

 

[Spareparts]

That was definitely the time and place to be cheap!

 

[someotherguy]

That was definitely the time and place to be cheap!

The downside: freaking SCITOO is now embedded in my search data so now FB serves up ads to me for them. I don't even think they have a FB page, yet they have FB ads. One popped up and I thought to myself, what in the hell..

Who even makes up the brand names for the crap you see on amazon? That's got to be some early AI at work.

Richard

 

[Erik the Awful]

[Hot Item] Dickass Performance Yellow A61 6 Pot Caliper Brake Kit with 355X32mm Disc HP2000 Brake Pad for Mercedes Benz W210 18inch

Model NO.: A61 Type: Brake System Material: Aluminum Position: Front Certification: ISO/TS16949, ISO9001 Classification: Disc

gzwantian.en.made-in-china.com

Apparently they're now aware that their name isn't socially acceptable and they're trying to change it to "Dickase". I think they should keep it "D!ckAs$" just for the Idiocracy of it.

 

[someotherguy]

[Hot Item] Dickass Performance Yellow A61 6 Pot Caliper Brake Kit with 355X32mm Disc HP2000 Brake Pad for Mercedes Benz W210 18inch

Model NO.: A61 Type: Brake System Material: Aluminum Position: Front Certification: ISO/TS16949, ISO9001 Classification: Disc

gzwantian.en.made-in-china.com

Apparently they're now aware that their name isn't socially acceptable and they're trying to change it to "Dickase". I think they should keep it "D!ckAs$" just for the Idiocracy of it.

They will live forever as Dickass Brakes, in my memories, anyway

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YOU CAN GO HOME ON THE ROAD WITH A STABLE MOOD, EACH OF THE QUALITY IS GUARANTEED

Richard

 

[Erik the Awful]

The 24 Hours of Lemons crowd found out about D!ckAs$ a while back, and I've been trying to find the race wrap-up video with the whole paddock chanting "D!ckAs$! D!ckAs$! D!ckAs$!".

 

[df2x4]

and I've been trying to find the race wrap-up video with the whole paddock chanting "D!ckAs$! D!ckAs$! D!ckAs$!".

I don't remember which video it was, but I definitely watched that.

 

[jaywestfall]

What are ya working on?
I just did the job and can say without a doubt the TTX stuff is better quality then all the others.
No regrets at all.

Agreed here, too. That's what I put on my 98 C1500. No regrets at all.