OK, don't be disappointed, it is for my 2002 Subaru, not my Chevelle..:boring:
But, I need new front rotors for my Subaru. I was looking in Rock Auto's website and they have several to choose from. Anybody have any experience with these brands..
Raybestos, "RED Service Grade" (whatever that means?) $13 each.
Raybestos, professional $36 each
Beck/Arnley standard, $21 each
Beck/Arnley premium, $43 each
Zimmerman $42 each
Wagner, $52 each
AC delco, $82 each
Brembo, cross drilled and slotted $197:eek:

I have to ask, did you try Napa?

I usually use dealership replacement(original), or Raybestos professional. Dont cheap out, it could mean you crash.

The NAPA around here sells the service grade rotors for most cars.

I've had good luck with service/standard grade, but the quality control is probably not as high as with the professional/premium grade. Either will have a defect now and again. I've put on a few thousand rotors. It makes sense to put cheap ones on cars that go through pads and rotors quickly. If you can afford the best, you should get them. Beck/Arnley makes some good products... the premium grade might even be OE on your car. I've purchased rotors at BMW dealers before and they give me a Beck/Arnley box.

I have to ask, did you try Napa?
Yes, they sell the exact same Beck/Arnley rotors but they are $31 for the standard and $70 for the premium. Rock Auto has the identical part numbers for much cheaper. Even with shipping. Looks like BA premiums or Raybestos professional should do the job. I do all highway driving with this car. It has 94,000 on the original brakes! Pads are only half worn, but the rotors are warped. They warped in the 1st 10,000 miles I had the car. I took it back to Subaru and they turned them for me. They warped again shortly after. I was told they had issues with some of their rotors, so I am not having them turned again.

We used to have a '94 Saturn with 4 wheel disc brakes. Factory rotors rotted off the car. $75 replacements rotted off the car. The $25 replacements worked just as well but eventually rotted to. It is as if the rotors had been left in a salt water bath. They all seem to be cast from garbage. We have an old '87 S-10 with its original rotors. It sits weeks on end by times and there is never anything more than minor surfacr rust that disappears immediately. Is this new stuff all cast in China? Is there a source for quality rotors.

Saturns that I've seen have no dust shields. Cars with dust shields sometimes exhibit rotor pitting too, but the ones w/o shields seem to do it more often. I've also seen a few Saturns with seized slide pins, esp. in the rear, which allows lots of pitting because much of the disc surface is going unused. Other than that, it could be just cheap metal.

This is from a BMW owner's manual, as I remember it. I put it in quotes, but it's actually from my memory. It instructs on how to minimize disc corrosion.
"To help minimize corrosion on your brakes, apply slight pressure to the brake pedal while coasting for 50-100ft before parking your vehicle. Use enough pressure that the brakes apply, but not enough to significantly slow down. This helps to clean off and evaporate corrosive materials accumulated during driving. Surface rust on the brake rotor surface seen through the wheels after the vehicle has been sitting is normal."

I told the Napa store that we use at work that when I order rotors or any other brake parts, I want the premium stuff. no junk or lesser quality for me. Brakes are too important for that, for my money.