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Originally Posted by bob3dsf
What do you mean by needing "new" calipers? Just get a rebuild kit from the parts dept. Aren't re-manufactured calipers all just rebuilt and refinished OEM's? Are there outfits making true 3rd party castings?
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Unfortunately, there are plenty of aftermarket caliper castings out there - generally sold as complete new calipers. But as they get removed and turned in as cores, they end up out there as rebuilt / remanufactured calipers. And unless you buy OEM remanufactured calipers, you'll end up with aftermarket rebuilding hardware - which is inferior in quality to OEM.
My son recently bought a fancy set of (supposedly) red powder coated calipers for his Scion tC through RockAuto. I suggested that he might want to buy an OEM rebuilding kit and he did. The stuff we took out was clearly el cheapo. At least they were OEM castings.