It’s a meaningless clickbait statistic. Sales are mostly down across all automakers with the exception of a few models across brands and fleet sales. I imagine your local carmax is looking pretty bloated right now. There was a dumb rush to buy cars during the tariff scare - but that has subsided...
Your caliper and bracket appear to be painted and/or powder coated - what was actually done? If you rattle canned it on with some high temp paint, one of the pins/pistons could’ve seized.
if you did it correctly, and removed the bracket and the caliper for powder coat — did you isolate all...
Irresponsible cybertruck driver puts the state in danger by parking his truck in a designated spot. Forces a responsible Mercedes owner to split it in half.