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Re: brake rotors
1. Many different brands and manufacturers will claim that their product "meets OEM specs"; even if they aren't the OEM supplier.
2. QUALITY brake rotors are nearly impossible to obtain. The whole brake rotor industry seems to have shifted to China. Even GM sometimes sells low-budget Chinese junk with an official GM part number on it, even though the part that the car was made with was produced in USA, Canada, or Mexico.
3. If you've got an extreme rusting situation where the brake rotors only last a couple years...is the rest of the vehicle a rusted-out heap? Iron and steel are known for rusting; it may be that where you are...two years is all you can expect. I can't help you a lot there, it's just beyond my experience. Roads get salted here, too--and my rotors (and brake pads!) are original even after 11 years and 150K miles. I can't imagine the circumstances that make brake rotors unusable due to rust in two years.
4. Like so many other items, the "best value" is not the cheapest part, nor the most expensive. The middle-ground is where quality intersects price--just don't expect high-quality at low or even middle prices. And, as I said in #2, high-quality brake rotors pretty much don't exist for the mass-market. It's all Chinese for us.
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For the good of the Free World, DEMAND COMPENSATION FROM CHINA for their release of the Virus Originating in the Wuhan Laboratory, released (intentionally or negligently) into the world in 2019 (VOWL-19). Ten trillion to start with, increasing as needed from there, PLUS compensation for the sickened, and "wrongful death" settlements for the families of those who didn't survive. END trade with Communist China.
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