Mikegpr03

where can I get crossdrilled brake rotors for my C55 (rears!)

c55asleep?

Brakeworld $360 the pair.

calimax

Dang! they want more than 2X's the dealer pricing for factory Brembo. What makes these that much better? I'm not so sure the rears are drilled either, it's just a generic pic, like the front and they don't specify, if its stock replacement or X-drilled.

c55asleep?

Read carefully he is asking for rear crossdrilled rotors so thats what I posted. The 350 is for the set of the rear. It is the stock size but crossdrilled. I think it is not bad b/c no one else makes them unless you replace the complete thing with brembo and spend $2000. Btw they look pretty good you just have to paint the center b/c they get that rust color.

moosejaw

Mike this is the same place I was going to get mine as C55asleep said no one else makes them

calimax

yeah, I understood what you meant ok, I'm just being a little more cautious, since in the past I got burned by a Major brand name that had the advertising incorrectly listed. Their picture, which turned out to be a generic pic, was showing X-drilled and slotted, came to me stock vented for another car of mine . I noticed the listing did not have writing specific to the rears as X-drilled, and instead has the same ad as for the front. BTW, I'm not surprised with the price of the rears, as I am for the front, which is already X-drilled Brembo/Zimmermann.

calimax

Guess what I just found? www.pagparts.com is selling the rears for $69 X-drilled by Zimmermann, heres the catch...... C32 only. Sorry, but I checked and they only list up to 2004, and I also checked if an 03-04 CLK55 used the same rear rotors as the C55, and nothing was listed.
I'll keep looking for a better deal than the Italian company for the C55.

speedybenz

What about getting just the slotted and not cross-drilled.

I know from experince that the cross-drilled rotors will crack if used aggressively.

Jeff

Mikegpr03

I'd like to get them just drilled to match the front.

calimax

For the rears, not likely to happen on the street, doubtful, even if you track it once and a while. It also depends on the style of drilling done to them. In my experience, rotors that do not have a tapered edge of some sort around the hole, will crack far easier.

moosejaw

Did this happen to b brakeperformance.com. They advertised Xdrilled but the fine print said dimpled rotors which looked fake. I sne them back and now fighting them with Paypal over false advertising. Their ad specificaly said Xdrilled, at the bottom it said in small letters that they were dimpled, which i did not read at the time of purchasing

FrankW

just get the 4-piston AMG/brembo rear. $1300-1400 ish. it cost more, but not much more consider the advantage of it. quality vs unknown brand. replacement for the 4-piston rotors are not that expensive either.

i got mine red to match my front brembo GT 355.

boohooramblers

Good job calimax - been looking for x-drilled rotors for a while!
BTW - I thought the C55 had the same brakes as the C32??

slowrey

You talking about the CLK brakes?

calimax

No, it wasn't from that site. This happened a few years ago. don't remember what site this was either. In my case, the image and ad was a direct copy of the front rotor ( also generic), just a different price and part #

calimax

Thanks, I believe they are using the 03 and up CLK set up.

FrankW

C55 has the same brakes as the C32.

FrankW

the CLK63/SLK63 brakes. yes.

calimax

Well I guess that answers it! Mikegpr03, that web link I posted should work for your C55! That has got to be one of the least expensive X-drilled brake rotors I have ever seen. Since Brembo/Zimmermann are factory parts I feel safe with that brand name.

Mikegpr03

great! i will check the site out. How much was the rotors?

calimax

Get this.... $69.00 per rotor! Shipping must be like $200 lol!

moosejaw

Well this sucked I ordered these, they didnt have the Zimmerman x drilles but offered me the CLK 55 OEM rear rotors for $268. What I got was the front rotors for the stock c32.

moosejaw

Thanks to this post i got f##ked again. What is it with me and brakes???