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Has anyone painted their brake calipers themselves? I know that there are special heat resistant paints for such purposes. Is there anything else I shud be aware of?..Wud really like to hear from those who's done it
I have ordered a can of bright yellow. Shud look gud on my black car and white alloys.
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21-11-2006, 07:19 PM
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Best tip I can give you is to make sure the calipers are super clean before you paint them, otherwise it will never look any good. Plenty of degreaser and a good scrub with a wire brush etc to get all the crap off.
Give it a few coats of the final colour too.
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21-11-2006, 07:25 PM
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yeah degreaser or thinners, we submerged them in thinners and scrub everything off then use "brake caliper paint" and do several coats
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21-11-2006, 07:52 PM
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to show ppl who drive "load carriers" how "cars" can look
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um.. we didn't do it on my car we did it on the xr6 turbo!
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unfortunately you can't see the brake calipers in this shot much at all but here's the car i always mention
   
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I want to do mine a red color on my ed classic, where do you get the paint from? Super cheap?
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Was thinking of doing my calipers yella on my mk2 zetec, but i don't know much about brakes, and also i don't think i could get enough time from not driving my car the allow a few coats. Might photochop it first.
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I have seen Brake Caliper Painting Kits.. on an American website.. or maybe ebay or something..
A guy at a AutoOne said any high tempeture withstanding paint will be fine..
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Yeah only thing I dont like the idea of really is that I have seen a few ones driving about where the red paint has faded and looks a horrible reddish orange colour.
Apart from the hassle of not driving the car for a while when painting / drying... the fading has put me off trying this mod. Zetec20 - how did the end result go with the XR6T... and hows the paint looking? How long has it been there? |
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paint's still bright red, looking good, i'll get s decent shot tomorrow and post it, i've been lazy
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I haven't done my front brake calipers but, I did do my back drums dark blue over the w/end
The white rims makes it look awesome.
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