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Originally Posted by robotrenegade
The ceramic breaks are gold not blue. Standard breaks are blue. This changes things.
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Honestly going for an $8700 brake option for different color calipers would be beyond insane, IMHO. I posted about this at length in another thread, but the only benefits of carbon ceramics are lack of brake dust, far longer pad and rotor life (unless a rotor is even slightly nicked), far higher fade resistance, and a modest weight reduction. They do NOT reduce stopping distance (except compared to steel brakes that have already faded, but otherwise the limiting factor for stopping distance is tires, not brakes). The last 2 benefits only apply on a track, so if you won't be tracking your M5 a lot, then is that $8700 really worth it to you for the other two plus aesthetics?
And to expand on the rotor being slightly nicked, they're sufficiently fragile that if you do go to the track and kick up a piece of debris on an off-track excursion that nicks your rotor, or a rotor gets nicked while removing a wheel, you'll need to replace it and possibly the rotor on the other side of that axle. Part costs haven't been announced, but on the Porsche side a single carbon ceramic rotor is $4K, which is why even some track people have switched back to steel.