7.5 repro calipers

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I’m seeing quite a few calipers for sale lately, around £80 for a pair.

Anyone got any experience with these? Seem very cheap to me.
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I have been using the Minispares own brand calipers for years, never had any sort of an issue.

http://www.minispares.com/product/Class ... o%20search
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Thanks Mark, I saw those but then saw all these other ones at half the price again!
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WOW!

I missed the "per pair" bit.

Seems too good to be true to me :)
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Example. Loads of them on there!
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The last sample I received of these worryingly cheap calipers the brake pads didn't fit, same for the cheap hubs, dowels holes were too big and the caliper didn't fit...
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Thanks, I suspected something must be up with them!
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Last year I had some problems with the left hand caliper supplied by mini spares . The problem was no fluid would bleed out . They were aware of the problem . As I say this was probably a year ago now . … Shirley
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