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Painting my break calipers

Postby coutso » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:13 pm

Hey guys,

Wasnt sure of an appropriate place to put this, but obviously decideded put it here :D

I'm going to paint my calipers and trying to decided on a colour... I have a burgandy/red MY05 and was thinking Matt Black or gloss black?
Just wanted to get some opinions...

Thanks.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby teK-- » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:37 pm

coutso wrote:Hey guys,

Wasnt sure of an appropriate place to put this, but obviously decideded put it here :D

I'm going to paint my calipers and trying to decided on a colour... I have a burgandy/red MY05 and was thinking Matt Black or gloss black?
Just wanted to get some opinions...

Thanks.


Gloss black looks nice. Matte just looks dirty/covered in brake dust.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby hamish_023 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:16 pm

gloss black is the go as is easy to clean with a bit of a high pressure and looks 100x better
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby coutso » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:33 pm

Glass black it is then... didnt even consider the cleaning of them. Thanks guys
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby tangcla » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:08 pm

Or get em painted silver - stands out a bit more than black, but still doesn't draw too much attention to them.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby coutso » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:22 am

tangcla wrote:Or get em painted silver - stands out a bit more than black, but still doesn't draw too much attention to them.


Didnt even consider silver... I'll have a look on the net to try and find a car similar colour to mine with silver ones
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby rickerty » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:32 am

Mine are Silver, I'll take a pic tonight and show you :)
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby teK-- » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:57 am

I was thinking blue at one stage, same as the Golf R32 calipers.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby Kekotic » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:20 pm

teK-- wrote:I was thinking blue at one stage, same as the Golf R32 calipers.

Yeah those do look pretty sweet.

I was trying to think of a colour for the GT brakes to go with the satin white paint, but couldn't think of anything.
I'll probably just go gloss black.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby teK-- » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:23 pm

Kieran are your calipers zinc coated from factory? They are a shiny silver sort of finish. I noticed this must be for post facelift ones only as mine are just a matte steel finish.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby Kekotic » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:32 pm

teK-- wrote:Kieran are your calipers zinc coated from factory? They are a shiny silver sort of finish. I noticed this must be for post facelift ones only as mine are just a matte steel finish.

To be honest I'm not quite sure, I'll take a closer look on the weekend.
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby coutso » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:22 pm

rickerty wrote:Mine are Silver, I'll take a pic tonight and show you :)


Thanks mate
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby rickerty » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:31 pm

Sorry about the crap pics, I took 'em from the phone.
They don't stand out at all but they look clean.
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I put some cheap decals on after doing the second coat then did 2 more coats of the Silver and a clear coat.
Just an idea :D
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby Digital » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:13 pm

i painted mine the same colour when she was new, that decal thing is a bloody nice idea! mine dont look that clean anymore.. thinking i need to make em glossy...
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Re: Painting my break calipers

Postby coutso » Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:05 am

Looks really clean man... how long did it take you to do it? I'm thinking a whole sunday side by side with two jacks and both wheels off the same time?
Its just crap that we have all this good weather in Melbourne until my one day off and its 17 and raining... FML
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