Gotta say Andy thats shocked me... has he done anything about it? Took them back to the retailer and complained? I'm not suggesting the retailer is in anyway at fault but it would be interesting too get them sent back to EBC to find out what they say?

I run an ST170 set up on my focus, ok it's not quite FRS standards but I do tend to be quite hard on my brakes, i've managed to warp both a set of genuine and mintex discs, the mintex ones lasted less than a month, and so far the EBC Discs have stood up well to anything I can give them...

That said I use the turbo groove discs as the ultimax are intended more for the exec/show market that dont want rusty discs.