polished calipers

[james walker]

ive an idea,,, i want to get a set of calipers for my leon cupra 20vt and proper polish them up.

mine is platinum grey with gunmetal inovite cts, im sure this would look superb.

question is how much am i looking at for a set of calipers used or new?

 

[D.K]

Good luck keeping them clean.

 

[james walker]

so, anyone with a helpful suggestion?,......

 

[AdamRoutley]

urmm..great idea in theory, but the helpful suggestion would be to read his post

 

[james walker]

okay guys, i take it its a t£$t to keep them looking okay?

what other colours do you reccommend?

i like the idea of porsche yellow with my gunmetal rims on a platinum grey?

 

[UncleFester]

okay guys, i take it its a t£$t to keep them looking okay?

what other colours do you reccommend?

i like the idea of porsche yellow with my gunmetal rims on a platinum grey?

Anything polished will be a nightmare to keep clean - yellow could look good, same as red ... maybe even blue. Or you could just be lazy and paint them gloss black

 

[james walker]

maybe a silvery, chrome like mds could contrast okay?

what you got fester?

youve a platinum smoker havent you?

 

[strugers1]

i painte mine silver and they looked good i was going to do white i have never seen that before

 

[CupraMVR]

I want to paint mine yellow behind my black rims. Think that would look smart.but need the car off the road to take them off 4 a while.

 

[UncleFester]

maybe a silvery, chrome like mds could contrast okay?

what you got fester?

youve a platinum smoker havent you?

Yep, hence brake dust coloured wheels and black calipers front and back. I don't like standing out too much.

 

[lukin dappa]

id go a nice blue mate stands out maybe like samco hose blue but im doing mine bright red as my car is yellow

 

[D.K]

Silver would look good, I had a 16V Clio and I painted them Silver and thay look good

If you polished them you might have troble with them getting pitted and coroding on the surface

 

[james walker]

im gonna go for gloss black ,to keep oem and just clean them up a bit

my lc may look like the batmobile soon, all dark....

 

[paullec]

Bronze

 

[Nutkin]

Hmm i want gloss blue on mine but i dont have the cojones to pull em off now.

 

[MDS]

I wanted that look...

So I sprayed them in Shiny Chrome Silver.... ( Spray Can)

They do get a little dirty with time... and need a respray some time soon.

But i think they look cool... Will look better on a larger caliper..

RESULT :

Other colours i think look nice are Yellow ( to change a little from the "already common" RED... and get that Porsche Ceramic look)

 

[paullec]

they look funky , fair play to the guy leaning out the window to take the shot lol

 

[MDS]

No leaning out...

ZOOM

 

[markgb]

You could have then shot blasted, then put lots of clear laquer.

I'm going for the Vauxhall VXR blue for mine.