How much does it cost to replace PCCB brakes in Yellow?

[qubilist]

I am looking at CPO Taycan's and found a car that optioned the PCCB brakes in Yellow with the Mission E rims. Normally most people have the white brakes with the Mission E. The brakes originally were $9-10k option. I am wondering what the cost would be to replace the brakes or brake pads on this would be? Would it be more than the white colored brakes? I am trying to think of future maintenance I and was wondering if these brakes are more expensive to fix and maintain?

Thanks.

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[bn8959]

In theory you should never need to replace PCCB discs or pads - they should outlive the car by a LONG way. Unless once gets damaged, then you answer is a LOT of $!

 

[Mr.Smith]

For all 4 rotors and calipers, My Audi RS E-Tron GT my dealer estimated between $30k to $35k.

 

[Jenner]

PCCB parts cost online (less than Dealer parts markup)
Front Pads $450
Rear Pads $425
Front Right Rotor: $5300
Front Left Rotor: $5100
Rear Rotors: $9800 for the pair
4x Front Caliper Bolts (can only be used once, 2x per caliper) 15ea or $60 total
4x Rear Caliper Bolts (can only be used once, 2x per caliper) 8ea or $48 total

Right around $21,000 in parts plus labor and brake fluid of course.

But as others said short of damage/accident or heavy use on the track, they should outlast the car especially considering how much braking the Taycan does via recouperation instead of mechanical.

 

[Marmolata]

I am looking at CPO Taycan's and found a car that optioned the PCCB brakes in Yellow with the Mission E rims. Normally most people have the white brakes with the Mission E. The brakes originally were $9-10k option. I am wondering what the cost would be to replace the brakes or brake pads on this would be? Would it be more than the white colored brakes? I am trying to think of future maintenance I and was wondering if these brakes are more expensive to fix and maintain?

Thanks.

i would ask dealer what is estimated brake pad life left, compared to new. i think replacing them down the road will cost more than car will be worth. ?

 

[RAHRCR]

I am looking at CPO Taycan's and found a car that optioned the PCCB brakes in Yellow with the Mission E rims. Normally most people have the white brakes with the Mission E. The brakes originally were $9-10k option. I am wondering what the cost would be to replace the brakes or brake pads on this would be? Would it be more than the white colored brakes? I am trying to think of future maintenance I and was wondering if these brakes are more expensive to fix and maintain?

Thanks.

I believe Porsche recommends that the standard brakes be replaced at 6 yrs regardless of wear. Unclear if the upgraded brake options time out at some point as well.

 

[Piper]

I think Black and Yellow are the obvious choices for PCCB. I'm not even sure you can even option them in white. To me white indicates they are not PCCB. I chose mission E wheels with yellow brakes and standard white ceramic coated body. Stunning.

 

[Jenner]

I believe Porsche recommends that the standard brakes be replaced at 6 yrs regardless of wear. Unclear if the upgraded brake options time out at some point as well.

This sounds like a money grab from Porsche to me. Certainly change the fluid every 2 years but if the pads and discs aren't worn out there is no reason to change them at 6 years (even if we are talking about the base models iron rotors). Just a waste of money.

Again we are NOT talking about a track car and we ARE talking about a car that does the majority of its braking via recouperation via the electric motors!

 

[RAHRCR]

This sounds like a money grab from Porsche to me. Certainly change the fluid every 2 years but if the pads and discs aren't worn out there is no reason to change them at 6 years (even if we are talking about the base models iron rotors). Just a waste of money.

Again we are NOT talking about a track car and we ARE talking about a car that does the majority of its braking via recouperation via the electric motors!

I suggest lodging your complaint with the Porsche engineers directly ?‍?

 

[CAGCTG]

There are services that will paint your brakes. There are even DIY instructions and paints that can be purchased. Having ceramic brakes is the bomb--there is NO brake dust! Painting would be the easiest and best option. Replacing ceramic brakes to change the color would be...not wise. Search for "Paint brake calipers"

 

[qubilist]

Thanks for the reply. That is what I feared if the maintenance would be over 10k.

 

[daveo4EV]

PCCB's should not ever wear out on an EV w/regen unless you are aggressively tracking it

rotor's on PCCB's last forever unless you track the vehicle

I would be unconcerned about PCCB's on a Taycan and I've owned several track cars w/Porsche PCCB's - I'm well aware of the costs and _WHY_ you replace the rotors…the reason for rotor replaement on PCCB"s is due to high termperature wear vaporizing the carbon fibres inside the rotor lowering rotor density - there are 3 markings are each rotor - number's like 53/42

in my mad up example above 52 is the "factory number" and 42 is the "wear number" - I.E. if the density tool shows a value of 42 at that point on the rotor time for a new rotor

your Porsche dealer can use their carbotech tool to measure the rotor density to confirm the rotors are not worn.

you are _NOT_ going to wear the PCCB rotors on _ANY_ EV w/Regen in any normal street driving scenario - it takes an agressive track schedule with many many many 100's of high performance laps to "wear through" PCCB rotors - I know because I've done it on my GT3

and frankly the Taycan doesn't have enough battery power for track day to run long enough or hard enough to wear through PCCB rotors (fact). It would take nearly a 100% track dedicated Taycan for PCCB rotors to show any appreciable wear

but yes _IF_ you have replace ceramic rotors they are expensive - however you don't replace the rotors that often even on track cars like my GT3's

get the rotors measured by the porsche dealer - 99.9% I'm sure they are fine - if they are fine and you have no itentions to track the vehicle you can not and will not wear out your PCCB rotors - and with regen you won't even wear the brake pads that much - so you'll be fine…

if you want gory gory details here is actual factural data from my 991.2 GT3 that I tracked with PCCB's and tracked wear data…it took me almost 3 years to wear through one full set of PCCB rotors on a dedicatged track car (30+ track days a year) - and even then only ONE of the 4 rotors was worn enough to merit replacement (passenger side rear)…

https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3...-wear-data-sharedo90-tracked-gt3-991-2-a.html

my conclusion based on actual usage is that you can NOT wear out PCCB's with a Taycan because it can't stay on track long enough for a single battery charge cycle to use the brakes enough to overheat them…and street driving - well that's all regen and no brake usage - wear is nearly inconsequential…

but again you don't havef to go into this blind - your dealer can MEASURE the PCCB rotor wear and compare to the ccalibration numbers on the rotor hats and provided conclusive data as to what level of wear the rotors have seen on the current vehicle - my guess is the rotors are at 95% of their orignal factory value at each of the 3 measure points on each of the 4 rotors…which means virtually no wear.

PCCB's on an EV should be zero concern - they are un-necessary and virtually impossible to wear them - on a normal 911 GT3 track car - yeah you'll need to understand the current level of wear…

don't over think it.

i laugh at anyone concerned about wearing out PCCB rotors on an EV that will never see the track, and even if it does can't run long enough on track to actually overheat the brakes.

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