FTO AUSTRALIA

Cutting a VERY long story short.
- I went to the coast sat night (got to springwood) pulled over because my car was squeeling when i put my foot on the brake. Thought it was odd because the pads were changed in oct 06 when i brought it. kept driving and even when i didnt have my foot on the brakes.. it squeeled.
- went home so i could get a better look in the light.
- took the calipers off took the rotors off.. & to my surprise the disc was down to its bare shiny metal with the biggest lip i have ever seen worn into one.. I WAS PISSED!!
the wanker who had the car before changed the pads but obviously didnt get them machined down or even changed.

- Got over all that sunday morning & called autobarn, super cheap, repco, coventry etc etc all branches in brisbane..
Half of them said this "a what? a lancer u mean" im like.. nooooo.. a fto.. one chick even said to me like i was stupid "i think you mean a lancer" i said to her.. i think your stupid? you think i dont know what my own car is? her comment "well you never know" i go.. right... you got front disc rotors .. her reply " im sorry i dont know what your talking about" AHAHAHAHA someone should slap her!! this was @ supercheap on the spare parts counter!!! .. not sure who they are employing.

Anyways joe & ricks had a set - i would of gone and got them but he was shutting in 10 mins.. & even if i was driving my car there i still wouldnt of made it lol!!

so.. yeh moral of the story is.. check your brakes.. because now im sad and have to wait for some to arrive.. and i cant drive my car.

ALSO NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM A MITSUBISHI DEALER..
they want $240 per disc.. AHAH NO!
Oh & mt gravatt wanted my vin# im like.. er no?
i even told him that there 14" discs.. but noooope.. "im sorry i need your vin #" i said goodbye and hung up


also.. dont stick your fingers through your wheel spokes because YOUR FINGER GETS BURNT lol!!

sammi

(YES IM HAVING A WHINGE im in a bad mood)
give me some sympathy

P.S - Its still a pretty long story HAHA

due to the fact that there is only about 3000-4000 FTO's in Australia (may be more) not a lot of ppl know about or what an FTO is
as for the ye wanting your VIN # that would be to x referance parts that you need.
any way ood luck with your repairs

Bahaha...

Sam cops a phone call sunday morning...


"I need disks"

lol... what a guess that JNR had a set... (he was prob trying to pawn off my set... lol...

Hope everything goes okay sammi.

at least u have your car... even if its off the road for a day or two... my car has been at JNR since the cruise. lol... and is prob gonna stay there for another few months... :'(

For $240, might as well get the DBA Gold series with some spare change in your pocket.

Come to think of it, the highest rotor i've came across are as follow

AMG rotor, need to be change every 15000km and at $3,200 per set of 4

e46 M3 rotor, pretty cheap at $6000 per set of 4

Porsche ceramic disc at a bargain of $10,000 per set of 4.

you dont need a vin number for a part reference. i rang up mitsubishi cleveland.. and told him what i needed he found it straight away - the guy was just being difficult.


They are new from Joe & ricks not 2nds

ive got some on order from DBA lol friday ill see them wednesday!

Yes you can look up parts on CAPS (ie at a Mitsubishi dealership) without a vin, but you'd have to be specific with model & type etc. If you give them the vin they can look up your exact car.... If you give me the vin I can look up your exact car & tell you what the part number is that you need

MissxFTO wrote:
ive got some on order from DBA lol friday ill see them wednesday!

How much did you get the DBA's for? Standard rotors or something special?

mits need your vin to make sure its for the RIGHT model
anyways...
i got some evo 8 front rotors near new condition
for 200 bucks + postage

$125 each for normal top of the line rotors..

& $150 each for slotted

i think we know which ones i brought!

& mine are a 14" disc..
mivecs are 15"

apprently TE magna rotors fit on the mivecs too.. according to some old dude @ coventry. But who knows!!

Hey guys,
Try RDA slotted rotors,

They dont warp anything like Drilled slotted and are cheaper than DBA. They also come out of the same factory.

To my knowledge they cost about 120 each rotor, cheaper than dba

They are the same as the older Magnas....

wow.. I think you won the award for most emoticons ever used in a post!

jokes aside - yea that really sux, i think you really should have stopped driving as soon as you heard the sound

Jono wrote:Hey guys,
Try RDA slotted rotors,

They dont warp anything like Drilled slotted and are cheaper than DBA. They also come out of the same factory.

To my knowledge they cost about 120 each rotor, cheaper than dba

They are the same as the older Magnas....

Also to save trouble just quote a 94 Galant 2.0L DOHC front rotors exactly the same.

Paid 45 bucks each for my RDA's and they havent warped nothing after about 50000kms of driving, still new.

maybe that was the price, it was a long time ago...