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Originally Posted by FETorino
Nothing in life is free. You pay for everything one way or another. If your rotors came pre assembled to the hats then you paid for it in the cost of the brakes. I'd rather pay for R&D and material or machining costs than for assembly. I feel with Wilwood you get better quality at the same or lower price point than some of their competitors.
It may also have to do with inventory management. For my application I wanted 14" slotted e-coated rotors and floating hats.
Somebody else may substitute standard hats with the same rotors. or smaller rotors or drilled rotors, ect.
By not assembling the complete package you don't need to stock as much inventory and yet can likely have exactly what the customer wants in stock when they order. The customer doesn't get stuck with the choice of get what I have or wait  For a smaller company they offer a large product line that is readily available.
I'd say their model works pretty good.  |
It's a Brake Buffet Extraordinaire!
All your points are good, though I wonder if liability factors in.
As previously mentioned I really enjoy assembling components like those.
