993 Calliper rebuild

[993UED]

Plate lifting has meant that the time has come for all four corners of my 993 to go through the treatment of having the callipers stripped down and rebuilt and since there will be no incremental labour cost (as most places send them away for this part), it will be the perfect opportunity to get them freshly powder coated at the same time. You seem to get a lot of bang for your buck for this last bit as it has a great visual impact on your car and the substantial financial outlay is on the rebuild itself.

The question of where to go for this has been dealt with on a few other posts, but I have never seen any posts showing exactly how much this should cost. Having contacted one or two trusted Porsche specialists for advice on the matter, there seems to be a wide range of prices that have been quoted and coming up with an expectation of what to pay appears to be a dark art.

Does anyone have a reasonably accurate idea or some experience they can share? Based on the fact that most of these callipers on these cars will now have seen between 16-20 years of service ('94-'98), I would work on the assumption that whilst everything is taken apart, it would be good to refresh as much as possible with new parts.

There has to come a point where the upgrade to Big Reds makes more sense.

[EVOeng]

I've sent you a PM.

[aceparts]

Learn from my mistakes and BUY NEW. Turbo calipers were something like £1200+vat for the full set. I spent £300 on high temp powder coating and £250 rebuilding them and the effect lasted 6 months. New ones will last you another 20 years.

[aceparts]

Plus you can sell your old ones to a VW modder.

[993UED]

aceparts said:

Learn from my mistakes and BUY NEW. Turbo calipers were something like £1200+vat for the full set. I spent £300 on high temp powder coating and £250 rebuilding them and the effect lasted 6 months. New ones will last you another 20 years.

Thanks for the tip. I haven't seen new calipers for anything like that price though (standard ones included). I guess you mean after market?

[graemel]

Agree 100% with Aceparts.
I too learnt the hard way.
Bite the bullet and buy brand new big reds just over £600 each ex vat

[Nurburgsingh]

Last time I looked at new callipers I called Exeter OPC and got a set of Big Blacks at significantly less than the cost of Big Reds.. because they weren't red.

[RobIpswichUK]

Speak to Tomas as Pro-Calipers.co.uk. He comepletely rebuilds and properly powder coats (and colour change if required) Porsche Calipers. His eye for detail and work ethic is second to none, but he's not cheap.

[aceparts]

Big reds from an OPC are around £350+vat Each from memory. I have the receipt somewhere as I only got them 9 months ago

[mrdemon]

prices have gone up loads on older calipers

Edited by mrdemon on Wednesday 12th November 14:12

[Magna]

aceparts said:

Big reds from an OPC are around £350+vat Each from memory. I have the receipt somewhere as I only got them 9 months ago

They used to be. Then Porsche ran out of stock late last year and had to renegotiate with their supplier. Long and short of it big reds are now c£600+ vat each