Well for you that know that i had a brake problem about two weeks ago. I still wait for the jacka$$' at autozone to get me working calipers. So about 2 weeks ago i went into autozone and ordered calipers they said that they would be in, in two days.

Well three days later i get a call your orders in. well i go down there and only one of the two calipers that i ordered was in. i then wait three more days when i get a phone call saying the other caliper was in.

I go down there, pick it up, get home and just realize that the calipers was rebuilt wrong. one half was the right one while the other half wasn't. This left like a 1/2 inch space in between the pads and the rotors.

I take them back and say that they are the wrong ones they refund me and they order new ones. 2 days later the new one comes in. I get it on the car and drive it around to see how they are holding up.

while coming to a stop i notice steam. when getting home i take the wheel off and look at the caliper and i notice that where the brake line screws into the caliper has cracked.

now there is no way that i overtightened it because i used just enough pressure to make it snug. Now i am going to have to take it back and get my refund. Well i guess i learned my lesson.

NEVER GO TO AUTOZONE FOR ANY PARTS!!! this is just the store that i go to but they will never see me in there again. next time I will do business with Phil. Hope nothing like this ever happens to anybody here.

Its been a little over two week with no car. all i have to say is that i love my mother for her letting me use her car.

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1981 300d

I got a rebuilt caliper from O'Reilly that works great..... I would not get them from Autozoo

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1983 Mercedes 300D
Atlanta, GA

Yup, that's the problem with those guys.

By contrast, a couple of weeks ago I noticed a leak in one of my front calipers on friday afternoon (I was driving out of town on sunday). I stopped by my indy at about 2PM and told him what I needed. He called his guy at worldpac and the parts (calipers, rotors, pads, flex lines, sensors) were at his place in about an hour. I picked up the parts friday at 5PM and installed everything saturday morning. On sunday I drove from CO to OH.

I got my rebuilt units from brakewarehouse.com

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

I got some from O'Reilly's. Work great and was very reasonable.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

years ago a new autozone opened up here in town,of all places right next door to o'reilly's.anyway me and a buddy go in to get a master cylinder for a 1962 willys pickup.the guy says"well it's not listed in the book but we can have it tomorrow".told em to order it.on the way to the car i told my buddy, i bet they don't even make it to the grand opening.and they didn't.

Why would you go to Autozoo for anything? I hate chain stores they are usefull for getting wax, rags, and oil. Even then their use is marginal. I went to Pep Boys today in hopes of getting touch up paint for a Jetta. Me thinking they made a billion Jetta's so they have got to have it, of course they did not.


If I wanted some rebuilt calipers I'd give Phil a call, spend 2 minutes ordering them. With regular free shipping I usualy get the parts in a day or two. The parts would be correct and of high quality. No messing around, throw the core's in a box and ship them back.


How much is your time worth? Stop messing around with those morons and just order them from a decent place.

I order 99% of the parts I need for my cars online, its cheaper and faster.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I only buy car cleaning stuff from autozoo and maybe oil if its on sale

I bought a new set of Bilsteins for my SD at Auto Zone, shipped in in two days, then got a free replacement set 100K miles later when they started leaking.

They were about half of what Mercedes-Benz wanted for a new set.

What's up with all the problems with Auto Zone??

well i would have bought them from Phil but i needed them quick. me thinking that they might had carried them i went down there. they were also a little cheaper and i was really tight on money.

Next time i will buy from phil.

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1981 300d

The biggest problem is that the employees don't have a clue.

How much did you pay for each one? Bilstein has the lifetime warranty not Autozone.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I'll find the receipt.

The Auto Zone replaced the Bilsteins they sold me with a new set of Bilsteins at no charge, when the first set of Bilsteins I bought from them started leaking..

I don't know who Auto Zone buys Bilsteins from.......could it be Bilstein?

I didn't know you could buy direct from Bilstein. News to me.

What I am getting at is that it doesn't matter where you get Bilsteins from, you still get the warranty.

I wonder if they are cheaper, I know you can get them for about $70 each online for the W210.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200