Porsche 911 Adding Ceramic Brakes From Steel

Being so expensive and so challenging to make you would expect carbon ceramic brakes to have a number of advantages over their steel counterparts and they do.

Porsche 911 adding ceramic brakes from steel. The pccbs were a 9 210 option on the previous generation 911 gt3. Cost of ceramic brakes on a new 911 6k or thereabouts with normal road use these should last for the lifetime of the car 150k miles plus discs should only need to be replaced if damaged. I believe the braking with the ceramic turned out worse than the stock brakes. They increase in price as you move up the porsche range with the pccb porsche ceramic composite brakes system for a 911 turbo costing 21 990.

Finally in 2001 the first production car to feature carbon ceramic brakes appeared the porsche 911 gt2. I think its the either this months or last months european car they put a set of ceramic brakes on one of their porsche s. At first porsche ag built the carbon ceramic brake disk in 2001 into the 911 gt2 as series equipment. Some vehicles with carbon ceramic brakes that remain highly expensive the porsche carrera gt for instance or the porsche 911 gt2 won t see any value impact due to those brakes because second third and fourth owners will be able to afford them.

Those looking to add a set of carbon ceramic brakes to a 992 gen 911 need to part ways with 8 520. Porsche asks 8 520 to put pccb on the 992 series 911. Forum threads going back at least five years debate whether the porsche carbon ceramic brakes pccb justify their new and replacement costs. Bmw asks about 15 000 for carbon ceramic brakes on its 149 615 m4 for example while mercedes amg s 155 615 c63 asks about 10 000 extra for its superior stoppers.

My dads currently got a audi rs4 but is thinking of getting a new porsche 997 911 turbo he was running through the option list and he nor i knew what the ceramic brake discs they are a 5 000 6 00 option and wasnt going to fork out that sort of money untill he really knew what they are. Since that time also other premium brands use the advantages of this innovative brake technology for more security and comfort. But otherwise run of the mill bmw and mercedes models will get decimated as potential. Its worth looking at prior to a 15k upgrade.

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