Painting Brake Calipers

[HABC]

A few of my mates have suggested painting my brake calipers..............

 

Not convinced as yet myself...........

 

Any one done it or already got them painted.......Pics please and what do you recommend paint and process wise.

 

Car is Ruby Red...... what colour do you suggest (yellow suggested by one of my mates).

 

[chris_h]

I painted my rear calipers black to stop the corrosion look !!

 

I'll be in my exige at the notts/derby pub meet if you want to have a look at the finish tomorrow.

 

Just give them a wire brush all over, then clean, then i used high temperature paint from halfords.

[richbk]

hi

 

mine were green when i got car,

 

i painted yellow...looked cheap

 

now black behind gold wheels with lotus picked out in gold

 

dremmael, wire brush and hammerite, 3 thin coats, dont paint the bleed nipple

 

richbk

[sootysteve]

i personally think yellow would look crap, but painting them a different colour would look good, just not sure which

[sootysteve]

i think silver would look good on a ruby car, would look like std, but nice n clean. and tasteful for the colour of the car,.... just my opinion.ive always fancied doing mine, but couldnt decide out of silver or red.

[jhall89]

I just cleaned up fronts with a wire brush and dremel and cleaned up rears and painted with black hammerite and they look great - I can never get photos on here [unlike SELOS!} but if you want to see what they look like email me on [email protected]

[Ladders]

A few of my mates have suggested painting my brake calipers..............

 

Not convinced as yet myself...........

 

Don't bother then! It's your car.

[dalepearson]

I dont have any pics to hand, but I have painted mine gold with silver lettering, I think its suttle.

[Elaine]

I'm not a fan of painted calipers usually, but I have to admit RichBK's black with gold letters look good.

 

E.