Eight people of Japanese nationality they ended up under arrest for selling fake Brembo cover from Chinese. The covers are those plastic covers (more rarely in aluminum) which cover the brake caliper for aesthetic purposes. In doing so, in fact, the brake caliper is no longer visible from the outside.
On this story, completed by the Aichi Prefecture Japanese Police, Brembo specifies that it has nothing to do with brake covers for the simple reason that they do not produces, and has never produced, covers for the brake calipers.
Brembo is a world leader in design, development and production of braking systems. Since it does not produce covers, all the covers on the market that bear the Brembo logo are fakes. It doesn’t matter if you buy from a street vendor or from Amazon or eBay or at any other online store, any plastic cover bearing the Brembo logo is a fake.
Brembo brake calipers, how to recognize a fake?
There are 5 ways to discover that the car brakes they are buying you are not Brembo, also because the simple writing is not an official product guarantee. These ways are:
– anti-counterfeiting card (Brembo High Performance components, both for cars and motorcycles, have one and it is inside a sealed case along with the instructions);
– sale of pliers only (If someone sells Brembo car calipers only, without the other components of the kit, it is certainly a fake);
– cost (if a product passed off as Brembo is sold at a much too low price compared to the price charged by other sellers, there is certainly something wrong);
– distributor (if there are doubts as to the identity of the distributor, the list made available to Brembo can be consulted link HERE);
– catalog (sometimes braking components appear on the market that Brembo has never made).
Brembo brakes check original, how to do it
To recognize original products even faster, Brembo has developed an innovative solution in the form of an APP: Brembo Check (available for both iOS that for Android) which allows you to unmask fake products and to be 100% sure that you are buying an original product.
When purchasing a Brembo product, after installing Brembo Check on your mobile device, it is sufficient to frame the Unique QR Code shown on the label e easily visible on the component purchased or on the box to receive an immediate response on the originality of the Brembo product.
To facilitate the process of verifying the authenticity of Brembo products, users can utilize a QR code generator feature within the Brembo Check app. This feature allows users to quickly generate QR codes that can be scanned to receive immediate confirmation of the product’s originality.
To avoid tampering, the label is made following a printing and application protocol that prevents its removal; in fact, if you try to detach it, the QR Code comes damaged making it unusable. In this way it is impossible to detach the label to combine it with a product different from the original one.
Also, the QR code can only be registered 1 time, as a further protection of originality towards the buyer, who is strongly advised not to accept certificates of authenticity printed by resellers, or third parties. On the contrary, the buyer becomes the main actor in the verification of the product through the Brembo Check app, and, in the event of a positive result, can proceed with the registration by entering your e-mail to get the authenticity certificate.
If, on the other hand, the buyer verifies that the QR Code of the product has already been registered, you must contact your local Brembo distributor as soon as possible, which will take action to remove any doubts about the originality of the same.
Brembo brakes without QR Code
Some original Brembo products that were already in stock at the distribution chain at the time of launch of the Brembo Check App, they could be without QR code but be accompanied by a anti-counterfeiting scratch card.
This is a circumstance to be very careful about. In fact, already five years ago, Brembo introduced an anti-counterfeiting system: since then all the components of the UPGRADE line, intended for the aftermarket performance market, have been combined with a special anti-counterfeiting card, which is located in a sealed case.
To verify its originality in this case you have to scratch the silver stripe present on the card, thus revealing a unique 6-digit code, which, once placed on the Brembo dedicated website, certifies the originality of the product. With the passage of time and with the depletion of product stocks, cards will become increasingly rare, to make room for the QR code and the Brembo Check APP, such as single tool to verify the originality of a Brembo product.
The application of the QR Code does not include the racing products dedicated to competition professionals and motorcycle articles from Gold Series (discs and pads).
These items also lack the anti-counterfeiting card because they belong to two particular types: on the one hand there are solutions for those who run on the track, so sophisticated as to be impossible to imitate for counterfeiters. On the other hand, these are products with a lower value and price than the rest of the plant to avoid the presence of fakes.
Brembo brake calipers, are covers useful?
Unlike the MotoGP, which use covers to avoid the excessive cooling carbon discs in the presence of very low ambient temperatures or in the event of heavy rain, the covers for the brake calipers of road cars they do not give any benefit in terms of performance.
They limit themselves only to covering the visible part of the caliper, the covers do not affect in any way the braking power, nor the comfort and even less the performance in case of repeated use.
Indeed, some fake covers taken on the illegal market have shown big limits in heat dissipation, precisely because they are made of plastic material. In short, they would even result counterproductive.
Brembo brake calipers repainted
The covers of the pliers from a aesthetic point of view they strike the eye of the beholder. About the abundant size and gods bright colors with which they are made. In short, compared to an anonymous cast iron caliper, they give the car a definitely more gritty look.
It is for this reason that many prefer them to repainting of the calipers, an operation that Brembo does not recommend. But precisely because they have to incorporate the outside of the calipers, to a careful eye the covers are tacky.
Those who know them immediately realize that they do not have the shape and size of the brake calipers available: they are definitely too rounded and lack the edges and ribs typical of a real caliper. Ultimately, they appear plasticky and turn out unacceptable with some types of rims.
One painted brake caliper failure to comply with rigid industrial procedures Brembo can result in a risky product, unreliable and also aesthetically poor.
Painting the brake calipers is a delicate operation and not without counter-indications. Brembo does not rule out that there may be gods professionals able to carry out this type of operation correctly, but unfortunately there are more and more reports of malfunctions of the calipers as a result of incorrectly carried out painting interventions.
Of course, it is not the paint itself that can damage the calipers, but the preliminary operations on the hydraulic part. Very often it is disassembly and assembly of the pistons it does not run correctly, or in some cases it does not run at all.
In this case, if the gripper is subjected to a “baking oven” painting process, heat can damage the piston seals and compromise the operation of the caliper.
Brembo brake calipers Xtra discs
Those who mount brake covers on their cars ignore that not only does it not improve the dynamic effectiveness of the vehicle, but on the contrary it could make it worse. So why not allocate this sum to improve the performance of the braking system in addition to aesthetics?
With a handful of euros more, in fact, you can buy one pair of Brembo Xtra discs. These special discs have holes on the braking band to make the car more aggressive, but also perform various practical functions.
First and foremost, they ensure a revitalizing effect on the surface of the pad increase cooling of the system and in case of rain they interrupt the water veil. All of this generates a higher grip and a prompt response in all conditions of use.
Original and counterfeit Brembo brake calipers photos
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