997 Turbo Ceramic Brakes

[1hardwork]

Hello all,

I've just been offered an 09/09 997 Turbo with Ceramics brakes, the car has done 50000 miles and i'm wondering how much life can be expected out of these discs and pads?

I like the idea of no more brake dust ;~D i've never driven anything with Ceramics, will I notice the difference?

Thanks for reading
Carlos

[Rockster]

1hardwork said:

Hello all,

I've just been offered an 09/09 997 Turbo with Ceramics brakes, the car has done 50000 miles and i'm wondering how much life can be expected out of these discs and pads?

I like the idea of no more brake dust ;~D i've never driven anything with Ceramics, will I notice the difference?

Thanks for reading
Carlos

PCCB life is like iron brake life, clutch life, etc. Depends upon usage/treatment.

Be sure you have someone inspect the car that knows PCCBs and can advise you on their condition and remaining life.

For remaining life I do not know if this is determined by rotor and pad thickness, rotor thickness and weight and pad thickness or by rotor weight and pad thickness (or tea leaves...). But you need to know how much life is left. And that the brake rotors or pads are not just shot due to mistreatment.

For instance, an unaware mechanic can when he loosens/remvoves the wheel can let the wheel drop down onto the rotor. This can damage, possibly render the rotor unusable. The toolkit comes with two rods that screw into the wheel and prevent the wheel from dropping when it comes free of the hub.

There is still brake dust it is a lighter color and thus doesn't show up.

My Turbo has over 100K miles on its iron brakes. The techs tell me that if I owned a Porsche with PCCBs I could proably expect brake life easy double or triple that, maybe more.

Last, but not least, do not focus on the PCCBs to the exclusion you fail to consider and then eliminate the many other issues the car may have. Be thorough in your check out of the car. Look at the PCCBs, to be sure. But look at the rest of the car just as intently.

[nick996tt]

I had a 997tt with PCCB. They were amazing, and also very progressive. (and easy to clean).

From what i could ascertain when i looked into PCCB before buying the car was that as general rule 100k was a reasonable mileage to get out of them (obviously subject to how it's driven, ie track).

I also beleive (but may be wrong), that you can replace with steels when they need replacing, but some modification may be required.

Having said all of the above, i sold my tt for several reasons, one of which was the horrendous screeching/graunching noise the brakes made as soon as they got warm (and i mean warm, not red-hot). There was nothing wrong with the discs or pads as i had them checked a few times. It drove me nuts!

HTH
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