Tripped over these while looking for a set of Brembo pads for a mate;

PEUGEOT 106 107 206 207 306 BREMBO LOOK CALIPER COVERS on eBay (end time 18-Oct-09 02:46:53 BST)

Read the wording of the auction :

"OR YOU CAN DRILL 2 SMALL HOLES INTO YOUR CALIPER HOUSING AND USE SELF TAPPERS, THESE ARE NOT A STRESS BEARING ITEM"

For christs sake!!!! Lets all get the drill out on our brakes!

This is about as bad as it gets and shows how utterly crap the modifying scene can be.

Should be illegal IMHO.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

It's shocking what people will do to look cool. It's one thing having fake rear discs over the drum cover - it's another sticking a fake caliper cover over moving parts.

You right about them being made illegal however so are blue lights and that doesn't stop people fitting them. :(

From their shipping information

"Currently we shipping the parts to all European Union by DHL. If you wanna shipping to rest of world, please send the email to us, we can arrange the delivery and price. Thanks."

It's about time someone in authority gave Flee Bay a severe kick in the nuts. :rotz:

Im working in Thailand just now and the first pickup I saw that had these I actually thought they were real. It had quite large discs and was moving at the time.

It wasnt until I started looking at other "modified" cars here that I realised that everyone has them fitted ... just for the look! Always heaps of accidents here and many at speed. I dont think many of them are caused by these covers coming off but mainly down to the fact that the driving standards are disgraceful.

Maybe the two go together ... crap driving ... poor modifying sense= total disreguard for your own and everyone elses safety.

They should be illegal and anyone caught with them on the car should have points or a ban.

I dont think the MOT tester would even bother but they should IMO

Maybe they convince them selves that cause they have the brembos covers they have the brakes powers too.... :(

i'm sure i read somewhere that they're made of plastic??

... and that they risk melting onto the brake setup?

I'd rather save the money for something useful.

Blimey, the lengths people will go to

I might be dropping Brembo a little link to these - I'm sure they'll like them very much and endorse them fully

Steve

Seriously I nearly **** when I saw these yesterday. I mean apart from the fact they look crap, the vendor is telling people to drill holes in their brakes!! I nearly choked on me Amstel!

Reported to eBay as "dangerous or illegal item"

See what happens

Edited 5 October, 200916 yr by wardth

Well I took the copyright angle with eBay, so hopefully we'll arrive at the same conclusion. Also dropped a line to Brembo UK

Steve

How crap are eBay? Two days on and still nothing in my Inbox to say "yeah we've pulled the auction". They really couldn't give a toss about crap like this because the vendors posts multiple auctions so eBay gets lots of dosh.

I tried selling a "Bently Replica" watch I bought from Tukey and they killed the auction within 10mins!

The auction is still up, e-bay are useless at doing anything that might harm their profits.

I mean you just know somebody is going to put a long sef tapper into the pad and have a screw biting the disk which would be nasty. Worse still is the prospect of them screwing threw a fluid chamber or into the area where a piston is (on cars with external calliper pistons).

That plus they are blatantly using another companies trade mark and it would give that company a bad reputation.

I'm calling eBay tomorrow and giving them the choice - take down the listings or my next two calls are to Trading Standards and Watchdog.

Blimey - had forgotten about this. Well I reported it on the trademark issue, while you attacked the other blatant safety angle!

Clearly neither approach has worked. Goodness, this really does make my view of eBay improve dramatically :rubchin:

Where's the new, fresh eBay rival? Come on, there must be something out there!

Steve

I've said it before but:

eBid Online Auctions - Buy & Sell in our Fee Free Internet Auctions for United Kingdom

True. Never been a massive fan of the layout. Yahoo Auctions had the right idea, but sunk without trace in 2002. I suspect eBay intervention there...

http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/auctions/notice/

Steve

I find gumtree good, apart from the higher % of time wasters. City specific as well, so good for just picking stuff up that day.

to be totally honest there is plenty of 'meat' in a caliper to drill into but i still dont like the idea. what a load of rubbish

A very long time ago I saw clamps sold for suspension springs which lower your car :eek:, Im sure they were on halfords somewhere but was ages ago lol. It said "For display cars only" or something like that but I bet you atleast someone was/is driving around with them on.

Shocking :rotz:

So will this conversion help you stop quicker? :confused:

So will this conversion help you stop quicker? :confused:

Well, with four pot caliper covers, surely more pressure is being applied to the disc? :confused:

Well, with four pot caliper covers, surely more pressure is being applied to the disc? :confused:

Would it help if you were to use longer screws that go right through the calipers into the discs.......or would this wear them out quicker?