Terminator03
New member
So, after much research on here I decided to go with Powerstop red powder coated calipers, drilled/slotted rotors, and their Z34 Extreme pads when I developed the dreaded frozen caliper syndrome so common with these. I also decided to go with the 5th gen versions since I was going all in anyway. So, long story short, on October 4th I placed the order with Amazon for the calipers, rotors and pads, and stainless lines for the front. I decided to order just the fronts at first since I had a frozen front caliper. Since everything showed “in stock”, I figured I’d have all the front stuff, get that done, then order the rears so as to break up the financial hit a bit. Well, the pads and rotors showed up in a couple of days, and also the lines maybe a day after those, but no calipers. Meanwhile, I ended up having a catastrophic failure of a rear caliper, where I lost all fluid, and obviously pedal pressure. So, suddenly the rears took precedence, and I went on Amazon to order the rear stuff, which luckily also showed “in stock”! Fortunately, all the rear parts came in in 2 days, so I as was able to get it back running the following day. While all this was going on, I received a notification from Amazon that they couldn’t verify the status of my previous caliper order because it was through a 3rd party vendor (Jegs) :gun5: WTF! I only placed the order because they showed “in stock”... as a matter of fact, I checked tonight and they still do! A few weeks ago I called Jegs and they apologized, and said the vendor (Powerstop) said they were back ordered until November 2nd, or something. Here we are at November 15th, and still no calipers while I am forced to drive on a frozen caliper.:mmph: Now, I’m between a rock and a hard place because I’ve already lost like 5 weeks waiting, and in the meantime installed the other brakes, so now even if I were to cancel, I’d end up with mismatched brakes. I’m not sure what to do at this point, but I’d like to make sure no one else gets duped by the “in stock” BS on Amazon if it’s not being sold directly by them! Apparently vendors can falsely advertise having items they don’t actually have in stock. Not a happy camper right now...
