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I'm having a difficult time locating a rear brake kit (Rotors, Pads) for my car in USA. I have red calipers. Can anyone provide a link? The retailers keep referring to premium model, and silver calipers. I'm confused as hell. Are premium and base the same brakes?
My MY17 brochure says that 355mm front/325mm rear in silver (‘performance brakes’) was standard on the base and premium base, with no other brake options available. Yours may have been painted by a previous owner?
Porterfield thinks the rear’s are the same from 2.0 base to R’s with “standard” brakes. Do yours match up to their drawing?
The rear pads for the 5.0 are different. Could be you got a Big Brake upgrade? Compare yours to those drawings.
Either way, I’d seriously doubt you need new rotors. You can successfully pad slap with the Porterfield R4-S compound.
I'm second owner. From what you just provided, I'm starting to come to conclusion that previous owner had calipers painted red. It wouldn't make sense to order a base model, and then pay ridiculous money to upgrade brakes.
If you have a "base" or "premium" models, your vehicle is equipped with the 355mm and 325mm brakes. Red was available as an option in those sizes. See link below for a ton of brake options.
If you have a "base" or "premium" models, your vehicle is equipped with the 355mm and 325mm brakes. Red was available as an option in those sizes. See link below for a ton of brake options.
Yep, Rock Auto have a large range of brake parts for the F-Type BUT their listings are extremely vague as to which specific brakes they are referring to and most times they list them as "black" or "silver" (and sometimes "red"), great lot of use that is! And if you input "F-Type R" which only ever came with the Super Performance brakes - 380 mm front and 376 mm rear (putting aside the CCM brakes) - they list a whole stack of base and S brakes which are completely useless for the R.
Again putting aside the CCM brakes there are only two flavours/sizes of front brake kits and two sizes/flavours of rear brake kits, 380 mm and 355 mm fronts and 375 mm and 325 mm rears. The base model always came standard with the lowest spec brakes - "performance" - 355 mm front and 325 mm rear, but it could be factory optioned with upgraded brakes, either the "high performance" set up (standard on the V6 S) 380 mm front and 325 mm rear or the R set up "super performance". But it is/was very rare for anyone ordering a base to choose one of the upgraded brake options and I would say 99% of base F-Types came with the 355 mm and 325 mm set ups.
Moral of the story - double check exactly what size brakes you already have and triple check with any seller that they are supplying the correct size for your car.
I did the brakes/rotors on my 2017 R. 380 front/376 rear. I ordered the drilled/slotted rotors. All the parts were easily obtained from https://brakeperformance.com/brake-rotors/ Total cost was around $800 for pads/rotors.
The pads in-particular have been very dust-free the last year. Very happy with them. FYI.
Brake kit needed for 2017 F type V6 Base Coupe
