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    Senior Member Cliff's Avatar
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    Brake caliper restoration

    Any recommendations for brake restoration ( calipers ) mostly. Including Europe. Or, are reproductions a good alternative, when available. Thanks, cliff
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    PMB Performance is the go to place:
    https://www.pmbperformance.com/catalog.html

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    +1 for PMB. Great work and good prices. They did a set of 356C calipers for me and they were impressive.

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    Just got mine back from PMB, perfect!

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    Agreed re PMB. Recommended.

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    Who are the 'go to' caliper restorers in Europe?

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