Calipers - What changed in late 2016?

[jimmyz80]

The red brake calipers available on tesla.com have a disclaimer that reads "This upgrade is only available for vehicles built prior to 11/22/2016".

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what changed after that date? Are older calipers no longer compatible with the refreshed cars?

 

[ColBatGuano]

I read somewhere that the rear calipers now have the parking brake in them instead of in a separate caliper.

 

[GHammer]

I read somewhere that the rear calipers now have the parking brake in them instead of in a separate caliper.

Correct

 

[chillaban]

I read somewhere that the rear calipers now have the parking brake in them instead of in a separate caliper.

Correct -- sometime late 2016, non-P models now only have one rear caliper with fewer pistons. It serves as both the regular brake and parking brake.

But I see a lot of recent-build P100D models which still have 2 calipers.


(FWIW I doubt there's any performance difference the average driver will notice between the old and new brake design. It's a smart cost-reducing and simplifying move)

 

[jimmyz80]

Thanks everyone. My search terms were originally pulling up nothing, but now that you pointed out the new integrated rear calipers I was able to find all of the existing threads on this topic.

Ruins my plan of buying a temporary set of used calipers to use while I have my brand new ones powder coated.