Cupramvr's Leon cupra R

[h7 cya]

Great job!!

 

[Mr_Dave]

They do look good mate, even with your wheels so dirty

 

[CupraMVR]

Looking good. Just keeps reminding me how I need to do mine........badly! So you just re-painted them whilst they were on?

yea shaunyboy from the forum painted them for me.

just masked the brakes up and painted them up new stickers and then lacquered over the top

 

[CupraMVR]

They do look good mate, even with your wheels so dirty

shhh dave aint been out and cleaned up yet touring cars is on at the moment so will get out and clean more pics later

 

[brad1]

What paint did you use mate, any particular one?? I need to do mine soon. Because i am keeping the original red colour, wouldn't it just be easier for me to peel off all the laquer and relaquer them as some of the laquer is starting to peel off?

 

[CupraMVR]

yea that will brighten up the red paint they only go pink when the lacquer gets air under it so needs peeling off and just clear lacquer over the top.

used 2 pac paint and clear lacquer over the top to seal it all in.

 

[brad1]

Cool, cheers mate, I'll get doing that very soon when we get a decent weekend lol. Yours look good tho

 

[CupraMVR]

cheers pal i keep trying make it look nice and go as well as it should

 

[CupraMVR]

Washed and polished my car again so i could take some more pics of the brakes

here we go

 

[Mr_Dave]

Looking awesome mate, much better clean

 

[AndrewJB]

Very Nice John! thats exactly how i would like mine with either Brembo or Porsche on them

Youve only cleaned wheels to show of the brakes

 

[Shaunyboy]

did you like the backfire i got when i drove off ? wanted a big 1 tho

just a sneaky pic of my brakes how they look now.

i will put more pics up later when they have been cleaned

Yeah everyone heard it sounds immence annd i really dislike you atm lool as i want a leon again Once the fade is sorted it will be an A1 car,

 

[AntneeUK]

Those callipers stand out nice What size stickers did you go for? I think the originals are 70mm but I put 90mm on mine. I also had El Dude strip mine back to the anodising and repaint in a semi-gloss hardened paint that doesn't need lacquering, so it'll never peel again

How comes you didn't take the callipers off though? Worth doing, isn't it? So you don't have any red left behind?

 

[turbo009]

Well done John,looking good!

 

[CupraMVR]

Those callipers stand out nice What size stickers did you go for? I think the originals are 70mm but I put 90mm on mine. I also had El Dude strip mine back to the anodising and repaint in a semi-gloss hardened paint that doesn't need lacquering, so it'll never peel again

How comes you didn't take the callipers off though? Worth doing, isn't it? So you don't have any red left behind?

yea i used the bigger brembo stickers that Danny lad got me

just save on time without taking calipers off was there a good few hours as it was.

didnt have 2 re bleed the brakes which have just been done

 

[AntneeUK]

That's a good point. Had a bit of trouble sorting mine afterwards, but nice to know they were fully stripped, serviced, painted while in pieces and rebuilt with new bridge pipes.

How do you feel about the larger stickers? I'm still undecided about mine. I like that it makes them different (in the same way as we went for a darker red than OE on mine) but I worry that they look too different and people will think they're not really Brembos. Maybe I'm just paranoid

Yours look great anyway, that's all that matters IMHO

 

[CupraMVR]

dont think the stickers look to big really the smaller 1's werent that small but wanted the little bit bigger 1's on, so u could see brembo.

 

[AntneeUK]

Mine, at 90mm (bad photo, wheels in a bad state, I know!)

 

[CupraMVR]

yea yours do look a bit bigger then the 1's on my calipers but still look good

 

[Mr_Dave]

tbh, Antnee, most people will only glance at them, and if they did take the time to have a proper look, it's prettty obvious they're real Brembos