Hey all,
I finally got my 300 mm rotors I also had r1 concepts diamond slotted and cross drilled them for me. Ralph Blyden was my contact person. You cannot find 300 mm rotors that are cross drilled and diamond slotted that I know off but he did a wonderful job and I would highly recommend him. Excellent customer service. If you have plain rotors and want that done, he will be your go to person.

I also had the Vice President of brembo that also highly recommend them as well during my search for my 300 mm rotors

These are genuine jaguar oem rotors for the rear

These are those same rotors before the work was done

 

gee what cha sellin ?

 

Not selling nothing, just letting you know who I went through to get this work done, you can choose whoever if you know someone, I just went through hell trying to get what I want done to my brakes. My rotors for my jaguar are an unusual size.

 

Common size. Uncommon wish to bling them,

 

Why would you pay to make them noisier?

 

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/s...47/#post921270

Oh well.

 

I also replaced my rotors. Both front ones where warped. $365.00 at R1 Concepts. Have had them for a few months now. No complaints and surprisingly quiet.

 

As quiet as oem?

 

The 300 mm rears for a 2008 jaguar s type 3.0 aren't that common, the common rears that are suppose to be on it is 326mm which are relatively cheap, that's why I was asking earlier about brackets and caliper upgrades. My year model and base style have two different size rotors that are oem for it but are not interchangeable, unfortunately I have the less popular size and the most expensive, only the front rotors are offered from most brake companies and to find rears that are slotted and drilled don't exist, I looked for 6 months and asked several brake companies and even ask here (some looked but only found 326mm). My rears are beyond turning and heavily groove, the fronts are fine and looked to been replaced. I didn't pay for the extra stuff done to my rotors, the guy has been helping me look for 6 months as well, I finally found those rotors on eBay and I got them for 200.00. One oem rotors from rimmers brothers or jaguar Miriam was 300+ a piece! my front rotors are common and I paid less for both rotors and ceramic pads to fit front and back so total brakes package was a little over 400.00 and I got what I wanted plus the "bling" as someone put it. Racing rotors run a few hundred degrees cooler and the design don't dust your wheels as much. Also have better stopping and weather braking is better....but do your own research and do what is best for your driving habits, oem is fine for most. If you look at most higher end sports cars and sedans, they seem to have drilled and slotted rotors.

 

If you really do your research, you'll find that they did it for bling also, not performance.

I can't wait till the fad passes.

 

The fix is not to go for slotted or drilled. Pointless waste of money and prone to cracking.

 

How do the rotors "dust your wheels less"

 

Fad or not, it's been around for a long time.....there is a downside to doing it the way I did....YOU CANNOT turn them or reuse your rotors for future brake jobs especially if they get badly grooved , so be sure that's what you want to do, with oem plain rotors, you can turn them and get a few more wears out of your rotors.

 

Any rotor is prone to cracking. The trick is buying quality ones. I can find a pair of drilled rotors on Ebay for $105.00. Less then half of what i paid for mine. But i bet you they will go bad in a few months. And i bet you they are made in China. Get countersunk, split vain casting, same OEM vane count or more. A 1 year warranty dosent hurt either.

 

The new rotors work great, very quiet and not noisy at all. They stop on a dime, even change out brake fluid. I do have one problem....my parking brake will not engage and it beeps while driving above 5 miles per hour....did the battery reset, remove the fuse, unplug the module.....different ideals that I have researched....land rover mention a screw that needs to be back up after the calipers get fully extended in which mine did thanks to my daughter activating the parking brake with the pads off, does anyone have an ideal how to re activate the parking brake or am I going to haft to take it and get it hook up to an computer to reset......oh FYI, o' Reilly's auto parts rents tools that help with the rear brake caliper but when you bring the rental back you get the full deposit back ( at least in Lubbock they do)

Plus note, my 12 yr old daughter painted the calipers and help with the brake job......great daughter/father bonding time

http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/PE...001_jaguar.pdf, here is a bulletin

 

Did you the standard EPB calibration procedure?

 

Drilled yes, slotted no. The drilling is purely for aesthetics & may lead to cracking, slotting on the other hand does have some performance benefits.

 

You said drilled yes? Slotted no? But then said drilling leads to cracking and slotted has some benefits..... I'm confused! Lol

 

Those look dope! What pads did you use with them? And how is brake dust?

 

I went with posi quiet pads semi metallic , I don't know about the brake dust because the wheels where still dirty from the previous setup. I was going to do ceramic but r1 concepts heavily advise against it and said that my car would perform better with these pads. I do know that the old rotors and pads where toast. Heavily groove with new pads slap on them for some reason. It's a shame because they were oem jaguar semi metallic pads. Someone spent good money on jaguar pads just to ruin them with old worn out rotors. Yes I also went through the standard way of reseting the epb. Even went through the PDF from jaguar that I posted here. Check linkage, cables etc. to no avail. My brakes work perfectly just having the issue with the epb.