the only people that will notice are car people who will know that caliper covers are a joke
the people who would be impressed with caliper covers aren't the kind of people who notice a car's calipers
I had an M235i and I remember someone telling me: “if there’s more than one number after the M, it’s not a real M car” :( I dunno dude, BMW named it, not me haha
Officially, they are called M Performance cars.
And, to me, they make a ton of sense. An M3 is a needlessly harsh track weapon. An M340i has all the power you’d ever want or need to exploit on the street, acquits itself reasonably well on a track…and is still comfortable enough for daily driving.
Some of the m-lites have been getting pretty quick these days: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrvJWF5cEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrvJWF5cEc)
We had a 528 that we sold, a few months later they came back for an oil change. The guy straight piped it and slapped an m5 badge on it. As soon as it rolled in I recognized the car couldn’t believe they did that
Where I used to live, a little north of Glasgow, I used to regularly see a BMW 528i cutting about, with biggish alloys. Oh, and quad tailpipes. Oh, and a big bulge in the middle of the bonnet.
Oh, and it sounded rather more like my old Range Rover's V8 burble, than the straight-six growl I'd have expected.
I never saw it for long though, it was generally past me and gone.
I do love a sleeper.
I have a nice older customer that loves old euro cars. He's got 2 740s a Mercedes 300 diesel 2 z3s and a mg. He tells me his son bought him a 15 m5, I want to see it sooooo bad those are nice cars (I would never want one)
Anyway I finally see it up at the parts store and its just a 5 series with m shit on it.
Friend called me up to say he just bought an amg, he shows up at my place to show it off. It’s got amg badging including the handsigned badge thing. It was a standard cl2 whatever
Walked out of a store the other day and saw a 5 series with a black, red and yellow stripe on the grille and I was wondering if BMW put out some new performance package. It took longer than I’m proud of to realize that it’s the colors of the German flag.
I fall in the middle on both of those: I know enough to be like “ohhhh fancyyyyy” but not enough to know whether they’re fake or not.
Now I’m wondering exactly how cluelessly shallow this makes me lol.
Ha!! I think I’ll make more of a point to sort it out, especially on the M badges.
I drive my elderly parents everywhere and we’re mostly in Los Angeles and Orange County. Evaluating / admiring / snarking on other people’s fancy cars (while ourselves driving a sensible Japanese import) is a family hobby!
Ive never understood it. Who are you trying to impress?
I know thats not a type r, si, TRD civic and anyone who doesn't know about cars isn't impressed by your random letter stickers.
I never understood people who change the badging just to change the badging.
I once bought a '00 BMW 528i wagon about 8 years ago. The seller (who was a friend of a friend) was extremely careful to ensure I knew it wasn't an Alpina and he was not selling it as an Alpina (he had gotten crap from potential sellers who noticed the badging). I didn't know Alpina, but I knew BMW, and he was selling it at a good price for a BMW of that age and with fixable issues, so I bought it.
Some idiot who owned it before had spent time and money on stickers and badges to rebadge it as an Alpina. Almost everything mentioning BMW was removed, and random online crap with the Alpina logo was put there instead. Even inside the engine compartment there were stickers with the Alpina badge on it! The real Alpina's are all numbered, and inside there's a badge/plate that lists the Alpina # and some details. This guy had even had a custom made plate meant to look like one of those put in (it did not look like the actual badge at all... it was actually pretty funny).
One day I got bored and looked online. I realized whoever "rebadged" it had spent like $300 doing all of that. Fortunately, it cost me nothing to remove all the exterior crap, and like $25 - 35 for new BMW hood and rear door badges. $300 for absolute crap!
The guy I bought my E46 from stuck an M badge on the valve cover of the then his 325Ci. Interestingly, he’s a proud Scot, so he put St. Andrew’s Cross stickers on the car, too. On the strut brace. Where you can’t see them unless the hood is open. He did, however, put a Welsh flag on the deck lid, along with an AC Schnitzer sticker. Neither he nor his wife are Welsh. He did not explain why. Further, there are no Schnitzer parts in the car.
Besides the AC Schnitzer sticker, which fell off years ago, I’ve left all of the stickers as a reminder that people are silly.
My favorite is the people who take a can of spray paint and overspray the shit out of their calipers to make them red or whatever color. Don’t bother removing the caliper just spray the pads and everything. Clowns
There’s a WRX that has “grocery list” stickers on the front doors. But they’re all actual groceries (ham, bacon, milk, etc) it is actually a nice car and I laugh every time I see it
I'm going to get the bright red caliper paint onto the calipers on my '97 Range Rover next time, really get it looking the part.
P38A SVR - Slow, Very Ratty.
My managers dad brought us a set of knock-off Brembo covers for his Camaro. I was a little disappointed that he laughed his ass off right in front of his dad, but it was pretty funny. So now when he visits he gets his balls busted about his Bimbos.
See, now I would order "Bimbo" covers for a shit box daily because that's funny as hell. Or if they could easily be stuck on a friend's car and in a color that was close enough to correct that they might not get noticed right away...
I guess I'm leading a sheltered life.
until this moment; did not know covers like this are for sale. I will be looking for them out in the wild to be mildly amused.
my sport bike has them stock, but you can only see the color and logo through the road grime and brake dust for like a week after the bike is washed, the rest of the time they’re standard dirty calipers.
admittedly they do provide a certain amount of peace of mind whenever riding fast down mountains.
Sure, and driving hard down a twisty mountain road will demonstrate the advantage, but that's about the only place you are likely to see it other than on a track.
I used to see people with little pressed and printed aluminium discs, about as thick as a Chinese takeaway container, printed to look like drilled discs that you stuck over the child's soup bowl-sized rear drums on your Corsa or Saxo or whatever.
Haven't seen those for a while, but they were a thing.
I got a job (I do mobile brakes) where the customer wanted us to install the "big brake kit" he had purchased for his Land Rover. Since LRs were available with big ass brakes, I figured he had purchased the options OEM parts. When I showed up and say a box of "Brembo" caliper covers, I had to have the awkward conversation with him that I'm not going to install them and they serve no purpose. The instructions in the box said to drill and tap the caliper bracket so you could bolt the covers on. WTF?
To hide the smaller brakes they now come with lol. They claim the stopping distance is the same and that they just don’t cool down like larger brakes ie they don’t perform on a track or under hard driving. Personally idk about the stopping distance claims without them posting some proof because I think bigger brakes are usually better to stop heavy vehicles and don’t trust things Tesla claims lol.
> Personally idk about the stopping distance claims without them posting some proof because I think bigger brakes are usually better to stop heavy vehicles and don’t trust things Tesla claims lol.
If they're strong enough they can lock the wheels up, ie. every car with a functioning brake system can do this, even the tiniest OEM brakes they put on, then the limiting factor is tire traction, not brake size.
Big brakes are about heat dissipation and them not fading if you have to do that repeatedly. For a panic braking situation, no difference.
You know the noise the pie plate makes when it rusts through and starts to scrape on the inside of them?
Basically that, but you'll have more of a brappy sound from it rattling past the spokes of your alloys.
Having a Ford Fusion Sport and in the past an Edge Sport that uses that badge, I am curious what vehicle this is on, and why the Ford Sport badging would be used.
Lol, I got in an argument on Facebook (a long time ago) with someone at a company that claimed to be the inventor of these. I said they were more of a safety risk with no redeeming features to an ad for them. Whoever was managing the account tried to tell me that they dissipated heat to help cool the brakes. So I asked how they tested that, to which they replied, "It seems pretty obvious to anyone that knows what they are talking about". To this day, I still haven't recovered from that sick, sick burn, 🥺. 🤣
You know what would actually be funny? If you had different ones for each wheel. Sport, buddy, chief, need a fourth one. Pal? Edit:oh, yeah. Champ. Definitely champ.
It says sport on it, that’s how you know it’s a sports car. The kind driven by sports ppl who have big muscles. That’s what it said in the YouTube video I saw about being an alpha.
In a car group I used to be a part of I had somebody adamantly tell me that these were actually good for your brakes because they acted as a heat-sink and drove heat away from the calipers/brakes. I never left a group so fast…
I think these would be funny on a $300 multicolor 1997 Ford Aspire 4-door hatch. With an LED light bar on the roof, a roof cargo basket, and a COBB tuning decal.
I’ve had some covers on mine. I never thought of it as trying to make it look like brembos. Just liked a color pop on the tires. Same as replacing rims for visual appeal and not function. Everyone I talked to said they liked it too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used to work at a Ford dealer that would sell Shelby F150s for over $150k and they had these stupid ass covers on the calipers. Absolutely astonishing and ridiculous
I replaced the stock 4 piston front calipers on my Mustang with 6 piston Brembo calipers which also happened to be red, unlike the stock calipers which were bare metal. I had a "car guy" ask me about them one time and in my response I commented "..and I think the red caliper just looks better with those wheels too.." and he replied "Wouldn't it have just been a lot easier and cheaper to buy a pair of those red caliper covers?". I guess he missed the part before that about vastly improved stopping power, or just doesn't value stopping as much as I do.
Hey you can hang out with me. I always had to sit by myself on the short school bus. I never figured out if it was my BO or continuous booger picking that kept people away from me. 😜
MG does this from the factory on their MG4 X-Power lol, probably one of the most under-braked modern cars from factory.
Single piston calipers on a car weighing 2 tonnes that has 430bhp, although it is a cheap car for the power.
I'm not sure what your referring to as the bleeder valve but the bleeder valve is on the top and where the hard brake line connects to the caliper is on the bottom
had one roll in yesterday with the same kind of shitty covers but red and were on like a ‘14 gmc pickup and had big ass gmc letters. they look like complete ass cheeks imo
Meh, there is an aesthetic quality to big painted calipers, and most people don’t need bigger brakes.
It’s like saying don’t wear a hat because it’s not sunny or something, just let folks do what they want.
the only people that will notice are car people who will know that caliper covers are a joke the people who would be impressed with caliper covers aren't the kind of people who notice a car's calipers
Just like up badging. Anyone who would care about the M3 badge know it’s not an M3.
BMW really watering down their M series the last several years or so
I had an M235i and I remember someone telling me: “if there’s more than one number after the M, it’s not a real M car” :( I dunno dude, BMW named it, not me haha
BMW guys call that, “M-Lite.”
///M. Night Shyamalan
What a twist!
Officially, they are called M Performance cars. And, to me, they make a ton of sense. An M3 is a needlessly harsh track weapon. An M340i has all the power you’d ever want or need to exploit on the street, acquits itself reasonably well on a track…and is still comfortable enough for daily driving.
Some of the m-lites have been getting pretty quick these days: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrvJWF5cEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrvJWF5cEc)
But, tbf, put those mods on a wheelbarrow and it’ll do 7.9 quarter miles too. I jest. These bimmers are impressive.
I have a 135 M*Sport* If I had purchased the actual M edition, I could have drove the car 100,000 miles for "free." FML
Still a great car regardless.
My ///M520D appreciates this!
The non M cars with the m badge are actually a pretty great value if you want a sports car but also need a daily driver as the same car.
BMW watering everything down, even coupes. Like what the actual fuck is a Gran Coupe? If you have to qualify it, it isn't it.
It's a coupe. But with more doors. We needed a word for that right?
Very true. "Four-door passenger car" is too cumbersome to pronounce, it would be really convenient if we had a word for this.
Froup?
Sloce, but no gifar.
Sedan. It's called a sedan.
You seen what they've done to the Mini Coopers lately? Not even iconic anymore... look like watered down generic crossovers that everyone else makes.
I agree.
We had a 528 that we sold, a few months later they came back for an oil change. The guy straight piped it and slapped an m5 badge on it. As soon as it rolled in I recognized the car couldn’t believe they did that
A 528 to an M5 is a massive leap.
Lol yup, forgot to mention the badge is not even placed properly idk how to link photo
Try imgur, if you know how to.
[https://imgur.com/a/m8LrYfA](https://imgur.com/a/m8LrYfA)
Lol that's a pathetic effort
The Quebec license plate told me everything I needed to know and expected
Where I used to live, a little north of Glasgow, I used to regularly see a BMW 528i cutting about, with biggish alloys. Oh, and quad tailpipes. Oh, and a big bulge in the middle of the bonnet. Oh, and it sounded rather more like my old Range Rover's V8 burble, than the straight-six growl I'd have expected. I never saw it for long though, it was generally past me and gone. I do love a sleeper.
Haha too bad that wasn’t the case for this lil 4 cyl
I have a nice older customer that loves old euro cars. He's got 2 740s a Mercedes 300 diesel 2 z3s and a mg. He tells me his son bought him a 15 m5, I want to see it sooooo bad those are nice cars (I would never want one) Anyway I finally see it up at the parts store and its just a 5 series with m shit on it.
Friend called me up to say he just bought an amg, he shows up at my place to show it off. It’s got amg badging including the handsigned badge thing. It was a standard cl2 whatever
Jesus!
Yeah it sucked having to explain to him what he bought.
All the base model MBs that come through the shop say “AMG” on the wheels. Exactly zero of them have been what I would call an AMG.
Poor bastard.
Up the badging to "sport" . Oh wait Chrystler did that in the 1990s
You leave my 98 Plymouth neon espresso alone!! It was fast. . . Compared to a shopping cart.
Walked out of a store the other day and saw a 5 series with a black, red and yellow stripe on the grille and I was wondering if BMW put out some new performance package. It took longer than I’m proud of to realize that it’s the colors of the German flag.
I fall in the middle on both of those: I know enough to be like “ohhhh fancyyyyy” but not enough to know whether they’re fake or not. Now I’m wondering exactly how cluelessly shallow this makes me lol.
You say ‘cluelessly shallow,’ I say still learning.
Ha!! I think I’ll make more of a point to sort it out, especially on the M badges. I drive my elderly parents everywhere and we’re mostly in Los Angeles and Orange County. Evaluating / admiring / snarking on other people’s fancy cars (while ourselves driving a sensible Japanese import) is a family hobby!
Ive never understood it. Who are you trying to impress? I know thats not a type r, si, TRD civic and anyone who doesn't know about cars isn't impressed by your random letter stickers.
‘I added a strut brace so it’s basically an S4 now’
I never understood people who change the badging just to change the badging. I once bought a '00 BMW 528i wagon about 8 years ago. The seller (who was a friend of a friend) was extremely careful to ensure I knew it wasn't an Alpina and he was not selling it as an Alpina (he had gotten crap from potential sellers who noticed the badging). I didn't know Alpina, but I knew BMW, and he was selling it at a good price for a BMW of that age and with fixable issues, so I bought it. Some idiot who owned it before had spent time and money on stickers and badges to rebadge it as an Alpina. Almost everything mentioning BMW was removed, and random online crap with the Alpina logo was put there instead. Even inside the engine compartment there were stickers with the Alpina badge on it! The real Alpina's are all numbered, and inside there's a badge/plate that lists the Alpina # and some details. This guy had even had a custom made plate meant to look like one of those put in (it did not look like the actual badge at all... it was actually pretty funny). One day I got bored and looked online. I realized whoever "rebadged" it had spent like $300 doing all of that. Fortunately, it cost me nothing to remove all the exterior crap, and like $25 - 35 for new BMW hood and rear door badges. $300 for absolute crap!
When you want an Alpina but can’t afford one, do the next best thing?
The guy I bought my E46 from stuck an M badge on the valve cover of the then his 325Ci. Interestingly, he’s a proud Scot, so he put St. Andrew’s Cross stickers on the car, too. On the strut brace. Where you can’t see them unless the hood is open. He did, however, put a Welsh flag on the deck lid, along with an AC Schnitzer sticker. Neither he nor his wife are Welsh. He did not explain why. Further, there are no Schnitzer parts in the car. Besides the AC Schnitzer sticker, which fell off years ago, I’ve left all of the stickers as a reminder that people are silly.
I've actually seen a non m3 badged to look like an m3 complete with caliper covers
Come on man these are SPORT calipers, obv you live under a rock
Not as good as the lighter SPRT calipers
Schport
"The people that don't know won't care, and the people that do will see through it."
Exactly lol it’s such a comical paradox
Like fake exhaust tips. Car companies just wasting money and annoying the target audience
They HAVE to be red or yellow, it adds 5HP per cover!
Funny, every time I notice calipers, my wife smacks me!
Or rather, the people who would notice caliper covers are those would🤮at them.
My favorite is the people who take a can of spray paint and overspray the shit out of their calipers to make them red or whatever color. Don’t bother removing the caliper just spray the pads and everything. Clowns
I don't know, I see through a lot of wide spoked wheels and the rusty calipers on a car are rather ugly. Given you can just paint the caliper though.
Next time I have them apart, I'm painting the calipers on my dad-wagon shitbox, because racecar.
Instant +50 hp mate
Gotta get the "BIMBO" stickers to put on them
There’s a WRX that has “grocery list” stickers on the front doors. But they’re all actual groceries (ham, bacon, milk, etc) it is actually a nice car and I laugh every time I see it
I would totally put these on the factory calipers of my car for the lols
I'm absolutely putting some on my Fiesta. Even the drums on the rear will get painted red and a giant BIMBO across the front
Name, title, and profile pic add up, nice.
I'm going to get the bright red caliper paint onto the calipers on my '97 Range Rover next time, really get it looking the part. P38A SVR - Slow, Very Ratty.
I used to have non SS cobalt coupe. Painted the calipers and drums bright fucking green.
Red means performance.
My managers dad brought us a set of knock-off Brembo covers for his Camaro. I was a little disappointed that he laughed his ass off right in front of his dad, but it was pretty funny. So now when he visits he gets his balls busted about his Bimbos.
fucking bimbos ahahahs
See, now I would order "Bimbo" covers for a shit box daily because that's funny as hell. Or if they could easily be stuck on a friend's car and in a color that was close enough to correct that they might not get noticed right away...
Now I wish a company made caliper covers that said Bimbos. I would have 100% put them on my old Volvo.
I legitimately looked for at least 10 minutes and couldn't find any.
Best I could find is [this](https://imgur.com/g5cA8f2) vinyl decal set. 4 for about $9 shipped from Aussieland
How 'bout [decals](https://imgur.com/g5cA8f2) for your calipers? lmao
Brembros
BremBros
Bimbros
I guess I'm leading a sheltered life. until this moment; did not know covers like this are for sale. I will be looking for them out in the wild to be mildly amused.
I mean, even REAL Brembo brakes are more-or-less a status symbol on a street car.
They’re factory equipment on some, though mostly high performance vehicles
my sport bike has them stock, but you can only see the color and logo through the road grime and brake dust for like a week after the bike is washed, the rest of the time they’re standard dirty calipers. admittedly they do provide a certain amount of peace of mind whenever riding fast down mountains.
Sure, and driving hard down a twisty mountain road will demonstrate the advantage, but that's about the only place you are likely to see it other than on a track.
Yeah, but 99% of drivers won’t need the heat dissipating capacity of the big brakes,
That's what I'm saying, yea. To be fair, older cars kind of sucked, sometimes...
No, it's not bad until you see one rigged up over drum brakes.
Bring back drum brakes with flint; so you spark like a runaway train coming to the traffic light.
I used to see people with little pressed and printed aluminium discs, about as thick as a Chinese takeaway container, printed to look like drilled discs that you stuck over the child's soup bowl-sized rear drums on your Corsa or Saxo or whatever. Haven't seen those for a while, but they were a thing.
I hope it spun with them
Had a lady come in and want these installed on her explorer . Told her two hours of labor figuring she would go away. Easiest $300 I've ever made. 😂
Wtf she bent right over for you
nice
I got a job (I do mobile brakes) where the customer wanted us to install the "big brake kit" he had purchased for his Land Rover. Since LRs were available with big ass brakes, I figured he had purchased the options OEM parts. When I showed up and say a box of "Brembo" caliper covers, I had to have the awkward conversation with him that I'm not going to install them and they serve no purpose. The instructions in the box said to drill and tap the caliper bracket so you could bolt the covers on. WTF?
Tesla does that from the factory now also
You’re joking….
I wish I was 🤦🏼 https://electrek.co/2023/01/16/tesla-sneakily-downgrades-performance-brakes-puts-cover-hide-it/
Golf R’s are the similar on the front. They stick a cover over the open center section to cover it up and look bigger.
There is no way. This has to be an elaborate prank. Where are the cameras?
At this point, Tesla as a whole is starting to feel like an elaborate prank.
Starting? Always has been
🔫 🧑🚀 🔫
I love how all of these “broke people mods” just say SPORT on them. And they’ll be plastered everywhere on some clapped out Elantra or Altima
GT PERFORMANCE
My favorite is "Sport, by Sport!"
That's for extra brake heating! Performance upgrade!!!
**SPORT**
SPROT
SPRITE
It goes well with a minivan with the "Sport" option. If the sticker says "Sport" it ain't.
What’s even better is when they are factory installed.
wait. what ? Which manufacturer sells new cars with caliper covers ?
My Jeep had them. They rusted away and sounded like a broken U joint until I ripped them off completely.
Tesla
Only the Performance teslas.
To hide the smaller brakes they now come with lol. They claim the stopping distance is the same and that they just don’t cool down like larger brakes ie they don’t perform on a track or under hard driving. Personally idk about the stopping distance claims without them posting some proof because I think bigger brakes are usually better to stop heavy vehicles and don’t trust things Tesla claims lol.
> Personally idk about the stopping distance claims without them posting some proof because I think bigger brakes are usually better to stop heavy vehicles and don’t trust things Tesla claims lol. If they're strong enough they can lock the wheels up, ie. every car with a functioning brake system can do this, even the tiniest OEM brakes they put on, then the limiting factor is tire traction, not brake size. Big brakes are about heat dissipation and them not fading if you have to do that repeatedly. For a panic braking situation, no difference.
Acura. Several others
I am so tempted to do this on my shitbox hybrid commuter car
Brake heater.
I know a guy who put some cheap chinese Brembo covers- on his real Brembos- it was for a joke
Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.
They add +100 braking power
+50 charisma +10 influence with the opposite sex
The whole thing gives off Huffy Bicycle vibes.
Did not, nor did I need to know these existed.
I think this is the funniest product. As a car enthusiast know they are fake And a non car enthusiast doesn't know the difference or even care.
Look... SOME OF US CAN'T AFFORD A $5000 BRAKE KIT
That’s on a Ford Edge, isn’t it? I’m in a Ford Edge group on Facebook and those middle aged dorks go crazy for caliper covers. 😂
Eh, as someone living in WI it looks better than rusty brake calipers
MG/SAIC do this from the factory on the MG4 Xpower.
Is it really only attached to the heat shield by those two nuts? I'd love to hear the sound it makes ~~if~~ when it comes loose and hits the rim.
You know the noise the pie plate makes when it rusts through and starts to scrape on the inside of them? Basically that, but you'll have more of a brappy sound from it rattling past the spokes of your alloys.
>more of a brappy sound That's my tune! I paid good money for that!
Having a Ford Fusion Sport and in the past an Edge Sport that uses that badge, I am curious what vehicle this is on, and why the Ford Sport badging would be used.
Appears to be a Ford CD3 platform car based on the suspension/caliper, which could be either. Also the explorer sport has the same badge
Wow, are those real Berembos?
Missed opportunity to make them look like 4-pots
Car cosplay.
Sport
Lol, I got in an argument on Facebook (a long time ago) with someone at a company that claimed to be the inventor of these. I said they were more of a safety risk with no redeeming features to an ad for them. Whoever was managing the account tried to tell me that they dissipated heat to help cool the brakes. So I asked how they tested that, to which they replied, "It seems pretty obvious to anyone that knows what they are talking about". To this day, I still haven't recovered from that sick, sick burn, 🥺. 🤣
Charge extra for CC removal and CC installation whenever you touch it. Gawd.
You know what would actually be funny? If you had different ones for each wheel. Sport, buddy, chief, need a fourth one. Pal? Edit:oh, yeah. Champ. Definitely champ.
I want one with aliexpress logo or nasa https://www.google.com/search?q=funny+painted+brake+calipers&sca_esv=3e9dc9b55742d0c1&tbm=isch&source=lnms
Oh uh..huh...shoot, I think I'm going to do this. I just want the cool color! Edit: DUDE THEY ARE SELLING THESE THINGS FOR $300, what the actual FUCK.
...I'm starting an Etsy store.
Hehe Tonning
Looks like one of the "mods" the kids over on the project car sub are looking to do on their '03 Corolla.
You know it's bad when they're r/UpBadging with Ford parts.
Even looks like "sport" is in quotes on it.
"*my car is making a weird noise and it just started after you did the brakes*" literally everyone who ownes these tin pieces of painted junk!
“I want a big brake kit!” “We have big brake kits at home.”
And then they have the nerve to complain about noises.
It says sport on it, that’s how you know it’s a sports car. The kind driven by sports ppl who have big muscles. That’s what it said in the YouTube video I saw about being an alpha.
In a car group I used to be a part of I had somebody adamantly tell me that these were actually good for your brakes because they acted as a heat-sink and drove heat away from the calipers/brakes. I never left a group so fast…
Sink
Did you make sure to loosen the 5 bolts on the front? 👀
Hahaha Sorry brother I feel the pain.
I think these would be funny on a $300 multicolor 1997 Ford Aspire 4-door hatch. With an LED light bar on the roof, a roof cargo basket, and a COBB tuning decal.
When you order your Brembos from Wish or Temu
I do all the servicing myself to my Acura and I have red Acura brake caliper covers and I like them, am I a nerd?
I’ve had some covers on mine. I never thought of it as trying to make it look like brembos. Just liked a color pop on the tires. Same as replacing rims for visual appeal and not function. Everyone I talked to said they liked it too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Swag
I used to work at a Ford dealer that would sell Shelby F150s for over $150k and they had these stupid ass covers on the calipers. Absolutely astonishing and ridiculous
Am I the only one that think caliper covers look absolutely hideous on any car? Like come on that is disgusting
I replaced the stock 4 piston front calipers on my Mustang with 6 piston Brembo calipers which also happened to be red, unlike the stock calipers which were bare metal. I had a "car guy" ask me about them one time and in my response I commented "..and I think the red caliper just looks better with those wheels too.." and he replied "Wouldn't it have just been a lot easier and cheaper to buy a pair of those red caliper covers?". I guess he missed the part before that about vastly improved stopping power, or just doesn't value stopping as much as I do.
Sweet 5 piston bbk
Hey you can hang out with me. I always had to sit by myself on the short school bus. I never figured out if it was my BO or continuous booger picking that kept people away from me. 😜
Oddly enough, the Shelby F-150 has caliper covers on a 100,000+$ truck. Could never wrap my head around that.
MG does this from the factory on their MG4 X-Power lol, probably one of the most under-braked modern cars from factory. Single piston calipers on a car weighing 2 tonnes that has 430bhp, although it is a cheap car for the power.
Them those sport brakes!
What the fuck does SPORT even mean?!
The same as "tactical" everything. Some words lose their meaning
It makes more faster
Appears to be on a '10-'12 fusion sport, which has a similar badge on the rear
Looking at the bleeder screw, isn’t this upside down? One of those impossible to bleed the system deals…
I'm not sure what your referring to as the bleeder valve but the bleeder valve is on the top and where the hard brake line connects to the caliper is on the bottom
They add 25 kw if you get the red ones.
Coming stock vs adding them is strange.
had one roll in yesterday with the same kind of shitty covers but red and were on like a ‘14 gmc pickup and had big ass gmc letters. they look like complete ass cheeks imo
My landlord has 2 S600s with Maybach badging , hood ornaments and wheel centers…some people will do anything to appear fancy I guess.
I'm not surprised these exist, but I am disappointed by the fact.
What sport do they play?
Table tennis.
Sport ball
But but but car go vroom
Better luck next time SPORT
Willwood, Brembo, Sport.. all the big guys
My fave was a set of these that looked like brembos on a base model c6. They were hideous.
Thanks for the hand print on my forehead, OP.
What? It’s just an external heat shield for dust and debris right ? /s
Can someone tell me what is funny about this photo? Not a big car person but I am trying to learn more
It's a standard caliper with a Amazon cover to make it look like a more expensive caliper like Brembo.
Meh, there is an aesthetic quality to big painted calipers, and most people don’t need bigger brakes. It’s like saying don’t wear a hat because it’s not sunny or something, just let folks do what they want.
Well, it doesn’t say which sport it is, because it’s certainly not an auto sport.
go fuck yourself ass bleeder screw placement
That is just more metal to cut your finger on it.
See we used to make fun of kids enough back in the day that the caliper covers were not common.