Anyone care to comment on the brake feel and effectiveness in their FF? Mine are totally average feeling: very mushy, with a long pedal travel that literally feels like its going to the floor. especailly when you really USE them, full ABS from 125mph+ down to 50mph...and (yes they have been serviced by my dealer) . any solutions? not to mention the annoying 'bite' at slow speeds that makes it very tough to not jerk the car....
I have noticed the "bite" effect which is characteristic of ceramic rotors. I have wondered if the caliper prefill mechanism is working the way it should since I do not get that effect on my 458. But I have not experienced any issues with performance braking.
Being carbon-ceramic, they do require proper warming up before working to their optimum, but I have to say I've never wanted for more in the performance stakes. I like the low speed bite!
The fact that you are really using them is good- that's what Id recommend to help alleviate them. Could you have bad brake fluid?
I don't think I notice any bite in mine. Standing on them hard at 130 mph there does seem to be a bit of excess travel but I think my Cali may be the same. Prefill happens every time you take your foot off the gas, and you can see the hit it takes to the electrical system if you turn on the dome light (my daughter would study on the way to school often so I would see the dome blink). And rear brakes are biased high along with being used for traction control so I had to replace my rear pads a few thousand miles ago, around 30K miles as I remember. Overall I am very happy with them. Not mushy at all under normal hard driving day to day. Rick
come to think of it, i've never had a ferrari with great brake feel. maybe my 360cs but that was another lifetime ago...maybe my 16M actually. sounds like the FF brakes are fine but I just hadn't driven it in a while. i guess we'll put it under the 'they all do that' column... man, its hard getting out of a McLaren and expecting anything to work as well.
man you are hard charging tonight wolf, first the speciale vs 650 thread, and now this one! a couple posts in the laferrari, p1, 918 thread and youll be hitting on all cylinders!
This just amounts to trolling.....does your IRIS work properly or were you one of the lucky ones who didn't need constant updates due to the system crashing..
i just wish the brakes in my ff worked like something on a $300k car should. the pedal travel is disconcerting.
Maybe have the dealer look at them because I'd be surprised if excessive pedal travel is normal. Maybe fluid change and see if that brings about any improvement.
20k miles on my FF, best brakes of an road legal car I have driven and that includes 12c. pedal action and bite what I would expect no problem even under excessive high speed use.
mine suk they must send the good brembos to england i'm going to have my tech look at them again. but 550,599,f12 brakes all very average so i think its the ferrari way.
Brake fluid fresh? Brake system (fully) bled (including ABS valves cycled)? Pads in good shape? Pads bedded in properly? Pedal feel before/after a proper bleeding can be very different. Also, having lived through poorly bedded pads and properly bedded pads, the initial "bite" and overall stopping power is palpable. Last, as with any carbon/ceramic brake, they need heat to work; in some cases, you need a few rotations under braking to get into the target zone.
My FF feels fine, good pedal feel, little travel, you need to push them to stop if you are travelling though, but the car is not exactly light! Impressive non the less.
Great brakes here, and the car is super stable braking from high speed (ie 200mph) time after time. I'd get yours checked if they are mushy...
