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CCM brake wear - Speciale

Discussion in '458 Italia/488/F8' started by Morgie, Oct 21, 2016.

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  1. Morgie

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    #1 Morgie, Oct 21, 2016
    Thoughts on 3000mi Speciale with 80% brakes left? Seems high for street use and suggests it's been tracked a reasonable amount. I searched the site but could only find a Scuderia brake wear comparison in which this Speciale should be at 92% instead of 80%. Does this wear seem high to you too?
     
  2. KenTO

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    #2 KenTO, Oct 21, 2016
    You still have 80% left, what's the problem?
     
  3. Melvok

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    #3 Melvok, Oct 21, 2016
    I don't even have a clue at 31.000 kms :D Why bother ... ?
     
  4. dustman

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    #4 dustman, Oct 21, 2016
    It's symptomatic of track use...and the car is a Speciale after all. I wouldn't be worried as long as receipts/records for maintenance and no off road damage.
     
  5. Entropy

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    #5 Entropy, Oct 21, 2016
    I have no empirical data, but...

    Speciale brakes are actually off the LaF, and in the case of our car (6K miles) the rotor wear was a bit more accelerated. Remember, "rotor wear" is a calculated figure based on an algorithm, unless your dealer actually removes and weights each rotor.

    Speciale wearing faster might be a combination of an aggressive algorithm, more aggressive pads, etc.

    Obviously, track use will accelerate brake wear - a lot. Even street use with a lot heavy, long duration braking will accelerate it.

    A key thing to look at is REAR pad and rotor wear; assuming the owner left the car in RACE mode, the software uses the rear brakes up as part of the ESC software and track driving exacerbates that.

    Is 20% wear high for ROTORS at 3K mile. I'd say yes. How are the pads? with 20% wear, I'd imagine the pads are pretty well used up.
     
  6. dustman

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    #6 dustman, Oct 21, 2016
    I sold my Speciale with nearly 6k miles, brakes were near perfect.
     
  7. Caeruleus11

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    #7 Caeruleus11, Oct 21, 2016
    Are you saying 20% pad wear or 20% rotor wear?

    At 3k miles I had gone through 2 sets of pads on my Scud- which did go to the track. Based on this, I will take a guess and say the wear indicates one or two track days but not lots of track days- and frankly, thats how the car should be used anyway! :)
     
  8. Entropy

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    #8 Entropy, Oct 21, 2016
    sorry - what I should have said (meant to say?) is that if your rotors are worn 20%, your car likely has gone through at least one set of pads...

    458C we'd average a set of fronts per race weekend, but we also never used them fully

    FWIW, I did 4500km on a set of rotors on a 458C, and I am maniacally hard on brakes....that was almost an entire season with a lot of testing
     

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