Questions About Equipment on Model 3 Performance - Conflicting Info Found

[turns2stone]

I believe only the Model Y Performance has the fake rear caliper cover but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed made it's way to the 3 performance.

3 Performance keeps the same rear caliper it always has had. I had both a 12/19 and 11/22 build.

 

[Zaxy]

3 Performance keeps the same rear caliper it always has had. I had both a 12/19 and 11/22 build.

Mine is definitely not a monoblock on the rear, looks like a cover and is the same as the photos of the Y fake one. I think my build date was 8-2022

 

[heavyD]

Mine is definitely not a monoblock on the rear, looks like a cover and is the same as the photos of the Y fake one. I think my build date was 8-2022

Can you post a photo. Mine was built a few months before yours and I have brembo brakes at the rear.

 

[turns2stone]

Mine is definitely not a monoblock on the rear, looks like a cover and is the same as the photos of the Y fake one. I think my build date was 8-2022

Ya please post photo!

 

[GregD60]

The rear brakes on the Model 3 Performance have never had monoblock calipers. I think the only difference in the rear calipers from other Model 3s is the color. The rotors on the Performance are different since they are two piece instead of one however.

 

[heavyD]

The rear brakes on the Model 3 Performance have never had monoblock calipers. I think the only difference in the rear calipers from other Model 3s is the color. The rotors on the Performance are different since they are two piece instead of one however.

To be fair I don't think you can ever count anything out with Tesla. It appears they will ship out anything to make meet their quarter end numbers. That's why we need to see photos.

 

[osunick]

My rear brakes are definitely the brembo (mid Jan 2023), I would prefer the Mandos TBH but you're not going to see this change any time soon. They were never monoblock- they were sliding caliper brembos done up to aesthetically match the front fixed calipers. Maybe with Highland we'll see Tesla do one brake system for all on the 3, but not today.

You're not going to see this kind of cost reduction any time soon, reason it happened on the Y is that the front and rear brake diameters (and indeed the front calipers) were always identical between LR and P. The LR setup on the Y was already just as good as the P setup for almost everything, P rotors have slightly more thermal mass on the Y but they are not the steel/iron composite the 3 has, and they never were. 3P is still a fair bit uprated from the 3LR.