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Old 11-22-2011
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Cool Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

I got a black 2 door 7th gen, I wan2 paint the brake calibers any suggestions?
btw someone should rate my car!!!!!
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Suggestions for what, colour?

I vote.. yellow.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Black, hides the dust better.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Black....seriously
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

black hides brake dust better...BUT if your looking for looks id say yellow or blue.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Originally Posted by maxtierney
Black, hides the dust better.
that's... the practical man. function and form - yep, ye really have your priorities in place as always
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

green and red stripe
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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that's... the practical man. function and form - yep, ye really have your priorities in place as always

Haha, thanks. Pretty caliper colors are nice to look at when they're clean. If you don't have a fairly open, 3/4/5 spoke wheel design, good luck on keeping them clean. Just sayin'.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

i think black is definitely the rational decision,hope it wont be masked by my black rims
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

red. if your ****'s all black and you got red calipers poppin people gonna think you got thousand dollar brembo's or some ****.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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red. if your ****'s all black and you got red calipers poppin people gonna think you got thousand dollar brembo's or some ****.
Yes, you will most certainly have ****.

Painting brake calipers is mostly for show, and hardly have any practical purposes aside from hiding a bit of brake dust.

If one is going for show, then paint them the brightest, flashiest color(s) possible: bright yellow, bright red, neon green, orange. You can't go wrong here. Be daring: paint them multi-colored rainbow!

If one is going for more practicality (like hiding brake dust), the previous suggestions of painting them black would work well. A dark silver or gray would probably also work reasonably well.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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A dark silver or gray would probably also work reasonably well.
or dark blue
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

unless you have some nice big brembo or wilwood brakes, i would just be discrete and use black. don't need to attract anymore attention to the small calliper and drums we have on our cars lol.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

white like mine =D but you'll need other white accents to tye down the overall theme.

make sure to use brake caliper enamel paint or ceramic exhaust paint.

you don't need to prime it, just use a wire brush to scrub off dirt and rust, the serface is rough enough that the spray should stick fine and cover in 3 coats.

i used a tarp in the weel well and over the front of the car, then used tape to mask out parts close to the calipers then news paper to mask larger parts close to the caliper.

ps: i painted my rims to =D.

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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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Looks good
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Originally Posted by sl33pyriceboi
green and red stripe
LOL. Why not Red and White and go for that Holiday Feel.
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

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red. if your ****'s all black and you got red calipers poppin people gonna think you got thousand dollar brembo's or some ****.
http://www.calipercover.net/

LOL. Yea checka dis **** out!
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Re: Painting brake calibers any tips/ suggestion on colors?

Originally Posted by Balzdpr
http://www.calipercover.net/

LOL. Yea checka dis **** out!
holy ****. yeah that's what im talkin about. **** painting them just get those.
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