SURVEY: What, If Anything, Have You Done With Your Car's Brake Calipers? (For Models S, X, 3, & Y)

[tps5352]

I meant to include a poll survey with the post Different Ways to Add Color to..., but I overlooked it at the time. This poll applies to all four of the (most recent) Tesla car models--S, X, 3, and Y. Feel free to post comments, photos of your projects, and links to other posts/threads. Although Models 3 & Y use different brake parts than Models S & X, the issues faced by owners in trying to improve their cars seem to be, for the most part, similar.

 

[AplAddict]

A customer at the shop I work at had yellow brake caliper covers installed over their stock breaks on a blue Tesla and I don't usually like that kind of thing but it looked really good not like a shity cover.

 

[tps5352]

I remember years ago (1995-2005) visiting a Los Angeles art museum near the La Brea Tar Pits--must have been the Los Angeles County Museum of Art--where they happened to be having a special exhibition of California Hispanic/Latino/Latina art. When I arrived I was thinking, "Oh, I won't care for this."

It was fantastic.!!!!

All that color on the canvas; all that emotion on display in the automobiles; on various three-dimensional objects; on motorcycles. Amazing.

My point?

I have yet to see a modification to a Tesla car--to its wheels, its brake calipers, its external paint/wrap colors, you name it--that doesn't look exciting. It is an expression of the owner/driver. There is no "wrong."

 

[tps5352]

...I have yet to see a modification to a Tesla car...that doesn't look exciting....There is no "wrong."...

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[tps5352]

I finally joined the Red Brake Club (RBC), and corrected the Survey accordingly. Tesla red Brembo front brakes. Tesla red Mando rear brakes. (Wheels are OEM Slipstream 20" rims. Originally silver, they were powder-coated to the Tesla Sonic Carbon color by Rim Pros of Sacramento. As reported previously, small gray or black pieces available from Tesla Service Centers.)