Four piston fixed calipers up front and single piston sliding calipers out back. Like JWreck said, decent initial bite, but I have had the opposite experience with brake travel. Coming to a stop when traveling at speed, lets say 65 MPH, is going to take a good amount of brake travel but there is no fade that I have noticed. The F-pace is heavy (anywhere from 39/4400 pounds depending on build). The S has the sport brake system and is what I am referring to. I think they could have put maybe 2 piston fixed calipers in the rear and made less brake travel, but other than that you will be fine.
I'm speaking from an S model perspective as well, just FYI OP.
The actual stopping distance is fine but the brake feel is a bit lacking. No fade that I noticed but I havent driven it hard enough to notice.
Haha no worries, so calipers are what grips the disc when you brake (on the S model they are red). Calipers can go from 1 piston all the way up to 8 (this is on a Lamborghini, I'm not sure if they go bigger). So the larger the piston the stronger the braking force. Both the front and rear have ventilated discs, just means there are spaces in the middle to keep the brakes color (this helps reduce fade). Solid discs do not have a space in the opening and tend to be in the rear on most cars.
Wait until it snows. Soon
That reminds me, have to get snow tires. I have the 22" Pirelli summer tires........
Are you sure?
There is no official info out there but I have a good rapport with my service manager and he looked into it for me. He couldn't even find any official details on it. I took it to a high end body shop near me, services Mclarens, Ferraris, Lamborghini's and a few bentleys. An associate there said, before even taking the wheel off, that its a four piston caliper. I also compared it to other SUVs with four piston calipers (specifically the GLC 43) and they match up almost perfectly in size.
The front caliper??? Look at the rear caliper and then the front, you will be able to tell the difference.
It's clearly larger, but I'm pretty sure that the front caliper on both the F-Pace and F-Type are sliding/floating.
That link looks like its showing the rear caliper (way to small to be the front caliper). Again, to me it looked to be a four piston fixed caliper, then when I took it to a high end detail shop near me the guy I saw also told me it was a four piston fixed caliper.
