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Originally Posted by STIHLBOLTS
I sell fasteners for a living. That rust is not the fasteners fault. Those are plain fasteners. IE there is no coating on those socket head cap screws that I could see. Even with zinc coated fasteners in that application you are going to get rust sooner or later depending on the area of the country you live in. Northern salt sprayed roads would assist that corrosion. Stainless could have been used, but if they were using an aluminum housing maybe that was nixed. .02  |
Fair enough and good info. So it's really on StopTech for fastener selection. And being someone who picks fasteners for things from time to time I'd imagine they had their reasons.
But in the case of a $6000 brake kit, if I were StopTech, I'd probably have said 'sorry' and sent some new hardware because it would be good customer service and good PR.