Calipers

[Kirman93]

Just wondering if anyone has had their calipers sprayed and what colour? Any photos?
Cheers

 

[Rob McCool]

When the calipers started to look a bit tired on the fr170 I used to own I hand painted the calipers and disc edges with smooth silver hammerite-it looked good and was very hard wearing.

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[Kirman93]

You got any photos mate?

 

[concerned cat]

When the calipers started to look a bit tired on the fr170 I used to own I hand painted the calipers and disc edges with smooth silver hammerite-it looked good and was very hard wearing.

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Smooth Hammerite has changed the formula. It's no longer is heat tolerant & turns gold & brown.

 

[Rob McCool]

I haven't got any pics and didn't know about the formula changing but I'm sure there will be other high temp paints available - shame though as smooth hammerite gives an original look finish to the calipers. ..

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[altea-ego]

Heres a picture of my FR calipers I painted. These are brush painted with high temp paint. Done 9000 miles since and still look good. Even the dealer commented on them!

Hubs are painted too to stop them rusting with aluminium high temp paint.

 

[Rob McCool]

That looks very neat-I`ll look for the aluminium high temp paint instead of smooth hammerite

 

[Kirman93]

I'm thinking of dark blue for mine! I've just purchased the 18" Performane alloys. What colour you done the hub mate?

 

[Aardvark]

Heres a picture of my FR calipers I painted. These are brush painted with high temp paint. Done 9000 miles since and still look good. Even the dealer commented on them!

Hubs are painted too to stop them rusting with aluminium high temp paint.

Terrific job!!

I read that you brush painted, do you mind offering more details on how many coats, what product, drying time, painted in situ with pads in or remove pads? How did you degrease before painting, the whole nine yards of best practice please. I would like to do mine what I want them to look right!

 

[concerned cat]

 

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Halfords heat resistant satin silver on the hubs & E-tech Gold engine paint on the calipers. Taken just after I did them but still come up like new!

 

[altea-ego]

Cheers, the calipers were done with e-tech caliper paint. and the hubs with car plan aluminium paint (silver).

 

[altea-ego]

Terrific job!!

I read that you brush painted, do you mind offering more details on how many coats, what product, drying time, painted in situ with pads in or remove pads? How did you degrease before painting, the whole nine yards of best practice please. I would like to do mine what I want them to look right!

Thanks. heres a quick summary of the process I followed.

Hubs
I got rid of the rust on the hubs with a wire brush drill attachment.
Cleaned with brake cleaner.
Treated with a rust eater.
2 coats of the car plan aluminium heat paint.

This matches the alloys pretty well too.

Callipers
I remove the calliper body to remove the brake pads.
Cleaned it all with brake cleaner.
Painted the calliper with e-tech calliper paint while connected to the brake hose. (this was the tricky part not to mess up) (tip here is to paint the inside first while holding in your palm, then do the outside resting on box/bucket. The carrier was left bolted to the hub. I did 2 coats following the instructions. Left overnight to fully dry then put back together with copper ease on the pad clips.

The reason its looks good is because the pads were removed, would have been harder to do with them in place imo.

 

[altea-ego]

PS, I did the same process on my Altea back in 2005, and when I sold it in late 2014 they still looked better than a 3 year old car including some of the ones I've seen at main dealers..

 

[altea-ego]

As a contrast this is what they looked like before on an 18 month old car!

 

[robin cur]

I just use a engine paint cheep and lasts a long time.