I agree that for regular driving, they do the job, but if a car company touts a car to be as fast as the Plaid is, you expect the car to be able to handle that speed. The old brakes clearly don't. IIRC, the Plaid is one of the few, if not the only, high performance vehicles that takes longer to stop from 60mph than it takes to get there.
Never said they're an upgrade.But... they're not an upgrade, so I'm not sure what you mean. Only the Track Pack brakes are an actual upgrade, or - the higher thermal capability brake pads. But these red calipers, as far as everything I've seen, are the exact same in terms of functionality.
Tesla Model S/X Plaid now also come with caliper covers
Last year Tesla switched brake component suppliers for the Model Y Performance, shifting from Brembo to Mando for the rear brakes on the top of the line electric SUV. The switch also meant the introduction […]driveteslacanada.ca
If you were worried about following all laws religiously, you should have bought a 95 hp hyundai and not a 1000 hp sports car.
I don’t think you can. When calling into local service, they don't know the pricing, or at least they say they don't. And it's not on their website either; only through the service menu in the app. And it seems like their brake upgrades all include installation.
I went through the EPC and they're listed as over the counter:
Hey NarTax, if I want to order Tesla OEM parts, is it always through Tesla online or this EPC source?
I stand corrected. I wonder why service doesn’t know anything about these? When I called, they didn’t know about them.
Because a lot of the people you talk to there used to sell pizzas at domino's last week and they would ask you for your vin number to verify if you asked them to buy a roll of duct tape.
Very poor comment. Model S isn’t a sports car. It’s a near 5k lb sedan. Stock steel brakes are adequate for reasonable driving on public roads, including short full throttle blasts. I’m fairly those that find them inadequate are doing triple digit runs with multiple full on braking events even to the point of overheating.
I'm still completely amazed and yet... not at all surprised that Tesla is selling a paint color upgrade for $2700, for calipers. Hahahaha.
They probably determined that a certain number of customers will “upgrade “ purely for the color and others won’t do DD and assume its an actual upgrade.
The Plaid was touted as being able to do repeated high speed runs without the motors needing to cool down that the previous MS Performance needed; wouldn’t it stand to reason that the brakes should be able to stand up to these repeated high speed runs as well? What’s the point of having a motor that can handle repeated high speed runs if the brakes can’t handle it?
That's not bad at all for new calipers. I might grab a set instead of powder coating my existing ones.
