Thread: Brake caliper seal kits - any to avoid?

Edit: genuine local =$75.

I just did my rear ones, the ones supplied were britpart, guess what, they leak, I just ordered new calipers instead

Bugger.

Pistons in reasonable nick?

Brand new

Originally Posted by Vern

I just did my rear ones, the ones supplied were britpart, guess what, they leak, I just ordered new calipers instead

Britpart is well known to be avoided for seals and gaskets.

Yeah I know that, someone else had organised the order so I just put them in. I may order a set of quality ones as well as the new calipers, if the company I'm going through ever reply to my emails

Originally Posted by twr7cx

Britpart is well known to be avoided for seals and gaskets.

In fairness, Britpart supply pattern parts, OEM and Genuine so providing you are selective BritPart parts can be of excellent quality. If you cheap out and buy their patterns parts you can have problems, but that goes for any vendor, including the eBay seller listed in the first post.

cheers
Paul

Originally Posted by OffTrack

In fairness, Britpart supply pattern parts, OEM and Genuine so providing you are selective BritPart parts can be of excellent quality. If you cheap out and buy their patterns parts you can have problems, but that goes for any vendor, including the eBay seller listed in the first post.

In my experience it seems to be a bit more common with Britpart. The other issue is determining which of their items is OEM vs pattern as often they are listed as OEM purely because they made some OEM items...