Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: Saffy on February 07, 2010, 17:53:31
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http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/15917/4312/4/DA5513-DEFENDER-HANDBRAKE-CONVERSION-KIT.html
do my eyes deceive me?
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Sure looks like a X-Eng one in the pic :-k,
IF, there is a britpart made one, i know where my money would go :lol:
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Many places sell Simon's products
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Many places sell Simon's products
Yes but this is listed as been made by Britpart
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that is the X-ENG one take a closer look at the mounting plate
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that is the X-ENG one take a closer look at the mounting plate
Not what the advert says though is it??
The standard Land Rover Defender hand brake can easily get bunged up with dirt if you drive off-road a lot and once the mechanism gets clogged up it doesn't work as efficiently as it should. Britpart now offer a solution to that problem - a drum to disc conversion kit.
This kit uses a powerful caliper whose mechanism is sealed to prevent the access of mud! The special pads provide greater friction than the standard ones and are resistant from abrasion from mud.
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It says that Britpart offer a solution............... it doesn;t say they make it............ they clearly don;t, the plate has X eng on it..!!!
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On a slightly different note I've always wondered of The original idea for this conversion came from a Scooter as I had a lambretta with a disc brake conversion and it was almost identical to the X-Eng conversion.
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Well the calliper for the x brake is straight off a jcb 360 actually
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And DANA use the disc transmission brake setup on there gear, thats what i have on my Case 590sr. although its a pain in the bum, needs adjusted all the time. grrrr
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£215.99 direct from X-eng (including VAT)
£252.61 (inc VAT) from L.R.Series :shocked:
Don't care if the one L.R series is advertising is an X-Eng or a Britpart Rip off, I know where I'll be buying mine from when I get round to getting one for the 110.
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It is very common for parts to be sold under different names, just becasue they market them it does not mean they manufacture them.
The most common example of this which comes instantly to mind is 'genuine' and 'OE' parts.
If you take the argument in the other direction you could say that it is Land Rover (or any other car manufacturer for that matter) who are being misleading by selling Dayco, Lucas, Girling, Quinton Hazell, Bosh etc parts in 'Genuine Land Rover Parts' wrappers. The outside company has manufactured them but they are sold under the LR label.
Many (probably most) Britpart & Bearmach parts are manufactured by existing manufactures and they just put their own brand to them. I know for a fact that what are sold as Britpart exhausts are actually made by Bosal who in my opinion make some of the best exhausts in the business. My Bearmach LED NAS lights which I recently purchased are made by Le Perie but from Bearmach they were cheaper than buying from Le Perie distributers!
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In my experience of OEM (original equipemnt manufacturer) parts, they are almost always made by other comapnies, BUT to the manufacturer's spec which sometimes supercedes the spec for parts you buy under the umbrella of other brands. Sometimes you find the parts that car manufactuers don't accept being sold under other brand names :shock:
Anyway, if anyone DOES buy a Britpart X-brake, I'd be interested to know if it has the X-Eng logo on it like the picture, or if Britpart have used a picture of the X-brake they copied :-k
Either way, if you want an X-brake they are cheapest to buy form Simon at a show.
As for the originality of the design, well I know he tried several sources of calliper over a number of prototype setups before settling on the JCB calliper. It's very expensive but over-engineered for the job, being thoroughly waterproof and using sintered pads so that it works when imersed in mud.