bse50

My customs only like them... they sent me 2 discs. I'm a tad worried because they sent me the 2 discs without invoice and charged 116€ of taxes. If the other box has a full invoice i will have to pay twice the fees to get them... Girodisc sent the discs as 2 individual shipments, not 1 shipment with 2 boxes so there's no way the police will let me go lol.

fastlaneracing

Customs is a pain in the ***!

i guess its worse in Italy.

bse50

Indeed. The customs office should contact me today to address the problem. It looks like Girodisc f'd up on some declarations so I will probably have to pay twice and then ask'em my money back.
Nice...

Giustino

iTrader: (2)

oh how i love the $1000 limit for no customs or taxes!

unlucky guys, hope everything works out!

fastlaneracing

F***KIN customs, they are anbelivebel! should it really take longer time in customs then sending a package across the world?!?!

just needed to write of some frustration.

THmotorsports.com

iTrader: (35)

CUSTOMS suck! but that is how Countries make money when it comes to international transaction.

If there is anything I can do please email me @ adamk@thmotorsports.com

-Adam

bse50

Will do, thanks.
Girodisc only put the invoice in one of 2 boxes and did 2 shipments with 1 box each instead of declaring an individual shipment of 2 boxes.
What happened is that the customs sent through the box without invoice taxing it at their own pleasure (yay..!) and now the invoice doesn't correspond to the other box's content (2 discs instead of 4 etc).
They will charge me twice this way, one for the first box that went through and another time for the whole invoice.
I'm trying to avoid that but Girodisc should do their homework better, it's gonna cost them a refund for the extra taxes i'm paying because of their mistake if my attempts fail.

THmotorsports.com

iTrader: (35)

Damn....what if i send you an official invoice from me with a different price etc....that will make sense to customs...can you have them reinstate the taxes and than refund you since it was incorrect. LMK....but I have done that before with a $8K M3 BBK that was sent to Japan.

bse50

Nope, that should have been done from the beginning unfortunately. The only invoice that matters is the one inside the box, and when it's "too low" they even ask the customer to send his copy for confirmation...
Now that I received the first box (without invoice) there's nothing that can be done. They should send me a fax\letter on monday with an attached declaration (goods\price\invoice\whatever). If I refuse to pay they'll send the box back or just crush it.
My only chance will be to attach the previously paid taxes to my declaration and see what happens.
That's not even the customs' fault, it was Girodisc screwing up. If you have a chance tell them to split the invoices between the boxes (half the price\partial shipping costs) if they can't to an individual shipment with 2 boxes the next time!

Just to be clear, i'm not mad at you Adam since you did a great job of keeping us updated but months of delay and this mess will make me buy replacement rotors from coleman ( http://www.colemanracing.com ) directly... screw Girodisc!

fastlaneracing

Hmmm this may be why My are stuck in customs...

Tried to call them but they didnt want to check bf monday.

bse50

White collars... they do wtf they want all the time lol. Try telling your boss "i'll do that next monday"

fastlaneracing

haha! true

vcoil

Adam I have problems with customs: Girodisc doesn't included any invoice.

Customs will return the shipment in 5 days if I don't provide information.

Please contact me ASAP at my gmail adress or MP.

Regards

THmotorsports.com

iTrader: (35)

We should be good now! Hope it works out!


anyone get their sets yet? Post up some pics!!

fastlaneracing

Got mine! looks awesome!!

BUT no brake pads! how many times did I tell you (adam + girodisc) to NOT FORGET THEM???

i'm sorry but im quite pissed of, i'm missing some pre paid track days now...

So what I need is some one to beam them over here ASAP!

So for no more confusion Hawk DTC60 for all four brakes and i'm not going to pay any more customs fees... allready paied $447,77 for customs.

Dear god....

bse50

The customs still didn't send me the fax.

fastlaneracing

This seems to be solved, sorry for my angry post. I'll make up for it both for Adam and mike at girodisc.

Now I'll stand in the corner with the dumb hat on

fastlaneracing

Front and rear with Hawk pads



Front disc



Rear Disc



Now its time to start working, fast. =)

EDIT: Adam and Mike (Girodisc) I hope you will enjoy your presents I sent you guys today. :-)

fastlaneracing

Installed! I hope I got them in the right direction, boxes and stickers text didnt match so I went with the direction in the manual instead.

So this is just a short brake to show of the brakes installed now out and continue to get it ready for the track. =)

THmotorsports.com

iTrader: (35)

Ahhh sweet!!! Just got mine in yesterday too. Looks like the fronts were about 3.55 lbs lighter...that is not bad. Look MAD beefy!!!

THmotorsports.com

iTrader: (35)

Sweet!!! dude no worries...I could understand your frustration.

-Adam

vcoil

The set F/R weights 11.48 lbs more that announced basing on the oem rotors weights listed in this forum: is it normal?
This means that they are only 43% lighter than announced: could you please clarify? I'm wrong?
Thanking you in advance.

LionZoo

The weight claims were missed. My ultra high precision bathroom scale says the fronts are 15-15.5 pounds and the rears are 9.5 pounds.

vcoil

I was the first, together with bse, to pre-order these, pay in advance, agree to wait MONTHS, just for saving weight as in their claims.
NOT to have fun changing the original rotors with two fancy pieces ones.

My precision scale (Voltcraft +/- 20g (0,044lbs)) says:
Girodisc Front 15.60lbs
Girodisc Rear 9.86lbs

Oem front (60 kmiles older) 17,42lbs
Oem rear (I haven't one to weight).

So for the fronts is 1,82 lbs per rotor gain (800g) means they declared a 3 times bigger gain.
I suppose for the rear rotors is quite the same.
Is this a scam?

Girodisc didn't respected their description; they didn't updated the specs during the design&testing period and didn't made any request to refund to us due to the fact the final product is far away from the announced and never updated one.

Girodisc (not THM) should directly refund all of us the 2/3 of the difference between their price and the oem part price because the gain is only 1/3 of the announced one.

Regards

Furious Davide

P.S. Just an advise, the packaging need to be improved: I received a rotor hat scuffed/chipped.

fastlaneracing

Just forget any refund, it want happend.

Ok im also dissapointed in the weight difference but the disc looks like they are going to perform good.

Btw I spoke with my local brake dealer and he sells girodisc and many more, his words: the are good but by no means the best. There are better options out there.

If you want the best check out performance friction (pfc's)

Im going to track my car real soon and I'm excited to test them out.