what colour calipers?

[jonnie5]

Silver wouldn't look to bad bud red would be awsome, just like the brembos.

 

[satilaboy]

i was going to go black but bottled it as i may have to sell the car soon. I did them silver. looks good with my blue car i think. quite subtle which is ideal if forced to sell.

 

[satilaboy]

here's a pic of the calipers done with silver hammerite (smooth) at a cost of £6! Looks so much better than the yellow i had done previously! Don't know what i was thinking!

here's the horrible yellow (cringe)

 

[jonnie5]

On my last car I found hamrite to be far better than any brake caliper paint. It had a better shade of post box red and the stuff works on top of rust. (always clean them up first though before painting with brake cleaner) I found caliper paint to be thin and flake quite easy with the heat. Also there red wasn't quite red. Though different brand maybe different.

 

[MrJohnnyB]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread but didnt want to spam with a new one, had a search and couldnt find the answer I was looking for... Am planning on painting my Calipers red with a yellow Seat Decal, I have an Onvi Yellow Leon Cupra and was wondering if anyone else had done similar to good effect?

 

[Bosher]

I used Halfords red caliper paint on my Laguna, covers pretty well (I done 3 coats... just to be sure.. lol) and doesn't peel off or discolour (and it had been on there well over a year). I just gave them a real good wire brushing and washed them in brake cleaner first.

So will be doing the Leon's in next few weeks.

 

[vincec79]

I have been thinking about painting mine up as one of my first simple mods, however I was thinking of painting a small initial area on the outwards face yellow letting it dry then sticking a CUPRA decal over this before painting the whole caliper in black and then carefully peeling off the decals to reveal the yellow.

Did a similar thing with my old Golf years ago and thought it may look quite smart on my onvi yellow cupra