I just purchased some akebonos(calipers) from circle infiniti in the mid west. They were supposed to be new, but they look like crap.

I was looking at other forums members akebonos and theirs are nice painted sparkly silver all around. mine are only silver on front half. one caliper has a dent and touch up paint, the back sides have like dry grease/ maching marks.

all of the bolts look a little tapered on the corners and more so at the top, like a wrench was starting to strip them.

I asked infiniti about it and they say they are 100% new,


Can anyone else let me know how theirs came?
What do you think? are these refurbs?

Please let me know what you guys thing so I can take necessary steps asap.







all of the other pics are on my sugmug


http://wehaveus.smugmug.com/Other/ak...445323_Kqg4QjJ

 

Looks new to me.... Those bolts are made tapered on the end like that.

 

Honestly now.. you just wanted to show off your Hello Kitty socks.. didn't you?

They look pretty new to me.

 

:shrug: they look fine. If they were used, even slightly, the mounting surface where you bolt them to the car would have wear on the paint.

 

Hello kitty socks, is there something you have been meaning to tell us?

 

hmm all i got out of this is that a dude is in hello kitty socks...not my style but whatever stiffs your ****

 

Hello Kitty socks.

 

I don't think those are his legs...if you look at the color of his hand.

 

Brakes look good man... Don't sweat it.

 

Those look lile $hit! Looks like 2 seperate calipers put together. The whole things should be a nice silver color, not 2 different shades. F00k that...

 

 

Look good. Don't sweat it.

 

Pic of the dent please.
Dry grease could be transport grease

 

Looks new.

 

hello kitty socks ftw

 

**** the goddamn socks...we all got a little ghey in us sometimes . Send that crap back and get them from Z1

 

 

Look like new crap. send back

 

after 20 minutes of driving, you're not going to care what the inside portion of your calipers are going to look like. you'll have plenty of brake dust covering it.

 

^this