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VW Racing Big Brake kit product review
chungster:
Errrr if you read most of the other brake related threads on here you'd see that people value DaveB's advice on all things Brakes related. He doesn't have to do it as I'm sure he'd rather spend time with his family and fly planes!
Think this is the first time he's aired his views on the VWR package in a detailed way. Is he not allowed his opinion on an open forum just like everyone else ??
I know of one other owner who had a fresh set of VWR 6 pots fitted to his Roc R, took it to Bedford Autodrome and the discs cracked into 2 bits! He wasn't impressed by that at all considering he shelled out £2k for them and could have had a rather large accident as well!
QD MBE:
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oh and I don't tell people what to buy in life it's a choice they make themselves
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....Exactly! All we can ever do when writing a review is share our individual opinions and experiences and it's always up to the reader to make their own decisions. :happy2:
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Hence the welcome lack of sponsorship. However RR - IMHO Sometimes your allegiance to VWR/Racing Line/Forge/AP/etc can seem overly vociferous.
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....You missed out a few on the list, Dave :grin: - Milltek immediately comes to mind. Then there's JKM, the Mk5 GTI, a loooong list.
Not allegance but enthusiasm. Enthusiasm for some of their products based purely on my own personal experiences. You'll notice that I have no significant experience of VWR's Big Brake kit and so I have not posted anything about that product in this thread. Also, all we can ever do is present and share information which is to the best of our knowledge at the time.
I think you probably know me well enough personally by now to realise that I am by nature enthusiastic about things or people that I like. I'm also an optimist by nature. But it's not as if I am never critical of products or services. Anyway, as Mat says, folks can make up their own minds and it's not a problem if some of us don't always agree about various products and services.
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Granted, however most people don't know you, and your enthuiastic allegiance etc................... :happy2:
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: chungster on February 22, 2012, 07:58:23 am ---
Errrr if you read most of the other brake related threads on here you'd see that people value DaveB's advice on all things Brakes related. He doesn't have to do it as I'm sure he'd rather spend time with his family and fly planes!
Think this is the first time he's aired his views on the VWR package in a detailed way. Is he not allowed his opinion on an open forum just like everyone else ??
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....Very much agreed about DaveB's contributions to this forum.
However, he doesn't have to be so critical of Mat personally (as I quote below) does he. Mat hasn't been "banging the drum" at all - He's been very calm and merely shared his enthusiasm at appropriate times. [The word "enthusiasm" has a different meaning than "allegiance", QDave]
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In summary Matt, we've met you're a nice chap and you helped me out but to throw your hands in the air and say "I don't know - ask Caparo" as soon as they start having problems just isn't good enough IMHO you've been banging the drum since day one and probably countless people have put £2k of their hard earned into these brakes on the back of this review.
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It seems that if a posted review is negatively critical it's better received than if it's enthusiastically positive even if it contains critical elements. John_O's original template for forum reviews where he included both Plus Points and Minus Points is the way to go.
MAT ED30:
:indifferent: to be honest I don't care what Dave thinks about the brakes we all know he is some kind of brake god and he knows best and that's fine by me but I Only started the review as it was a new product on the market that lots of people wanted to see and so I posted how I was getting on with them. Then it's upto people who by the brakes to post any problems they are having on this thread and then seeing how the problems are dealt with with all the pro and cons of the product. SO let's see how things are dealt with
DaveB@Vagbremtechnic:
I've nothing else to add to this thread about VWR brakes.
I would also add weight to the fact that the product review threads need an overhaul to a fixed format, that format should also include a £RRP and perhaps more importantly HOW MUCH THE REVIEWER ACTUALLY PARTED WITH to get the products onto the car.
This would help anybody reading the review assess the reviewers objectivity. I think it would be fair to say anybody objecting to this open disclosure might well have an agenda.
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