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Mercedes Benz Brakes Case Study
In general, non-genuine brake discs cover only up to 25% mileage compared to Mercedes-Benz Genuine brake discs. This means that you need 4 non-genuine brake disc sets instead of 1 set Mercedes-Benz Genuine brake discs.
Cost of a Mercedes-Benz Genuine brake disc is approximately 1075 SAR compared to a non-Genuine brake discs which is 325 SAR. In terms of Total cost of ownership, you end up spending 325*4 = 1300 SAR compared to the 1075 SAR spent on one-time purchase of Mercedes-Benz Genuine brake disc.
With non-genuine brake discs, you also need to add:
- 3 times additional vehicle down time for brake disc change
- Additional labor cost for 3 changes
- Lesser vehicle utilization = lesser trips = Lost Business
- Higher overall effort spent
- Less road safety and potentially a longer stopping distance!
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Mercedes Benz Engine Case Study
In general, a non-genuine injection pump for a Mercedes-Benz Truck will cost 4400 SAR /- compared to 9050 SAR price for genuine Mercedes-Benz injection pump.
How more often I have to change the non-genuine injection pump vs the genuine pump?
When you use a non-genuine Injection pump you are risking your truck in more than one way:
- Fuel inefficiency due to pressure losses because of imbalance vaporization of fuel in the combustion chamber
- Possible cracking, distortion & other damages on the pistons due to imbalanced pressure on piston crown
- Often non-genuine injector pump that has defective ball seats or O-rings, causing the timing of the fuel transfer process to be interrupted.
- Clogging in the injection pump grid
- Truck stalls as the fuel doesn’t get to the truck’s engine.
Is it worth to supposedly save 5000 SR to lose torque and pulling capacity, adding the damage risk to your engine and potentially cause unnecessary major repairs with embedded down time of your commercial vehicle? Better you enjoy the engine performance to the fullest and save fuel and do also good on protecting our precious environment with lower exhaust gas pollution.
