Painting calipers

[Will.]

I want to paint the calipers on my car. Not sure what colour to go with. Ideas?

Also how do you do it and how long does it take? I need my car everday to get to college and work a few nights a week.

 

[Nick_P]

Silver or Black, It takes like 10min, but you dont want to drive it for the day tbh.

Do it in the morning leave it till the evening (Y)

Oh and swap your 15's for my 16's, lol.

 

[Evoss]

You could go with white to go with the wheels or black to go with bodywork and contrast wheels.

How To: Did mine recently

You will need to take the wheel off to get best results.

Get your hands on a wire brush that can be fitted to a hand drill. This is used to remove rust/corrosion/ dirt etc...

Once all dirt has been been rid of wipe them down to remove the little particles of rust, metal etc...

Now, use masking tape and tape around the bits you dont want paint on. e.g. brake disc.

Now the paint:

You must use high temp paint for obvious reasons.

I got the paint from halfords for £5.99 and was enough to do about 8 if you wanted to.

Just give the caliper around 3 coats of the stuff ( its quite thick ).

I gave mine about 1 hour drying time in between each coat, (was sunny day).

All in all should be around 4 hours total time for one at a time or 5 hours if you do both at same time.

Hope this helps.

Evoss


I would recomend getting bigger wheels aswell with lower profile tyers for a better look.

 

[Nick_P]

You could go with white to go with the wheels or black to go with bodywork and contrast wheels.

How To: Did mine recently

You will need to take the wheel off to get best results.

Get your hands on a wire brush that can be fitted to a hand drill. This is used to remove rust/corrosion/ dirt etc...

Once all dirt has been been rid of wipe them down to remove the little particles of rust, metal etc...

Now, use masking tape and tape around the bits you dont want paint on. e.g. brake disc.

Now the paint:
You must use high temp paint for obvious reasons.

I got the paint from halfords for £5.99 and was enough to do about 8 if you wanted to.

Just give the caliper around 3 coats of the stuff ( its quite thick ).

I gave mine about 1 hour drying time in between each coat, (was sunny day).

All in all should be around 4 hours total time for one at a time or 5 hours if you do both at same time.

Hope this helps.

Evoss


I would recomend getting bigger wheels aswell with lower profile tyers for a better look.

lol

 

[Will.]

I was thinking that. Taking off the wheels is a must, have to be not with it to do it with them on. Im not liking the idea of black. I want them to stand out a little bit. What would silver look like?

Oh and, my 15s are perfect not getting your hands on them haha

 

[Jonff]

Silver or Black, It takes like 10min, but you dont want to drive it for the day tbh.

Do it in the morning leave it till the evening (Y)

Oh and swap your 15's for my 16's, lol.

10 minutes? How'd you manage to do them that quick? lol

When I did mine it took 4 hours :| Saying that though I did give each caliper 4 coats.

 

[Jordi17]

Do them silver imo.

 

[Will.]

Do them silver imo.

Any one with pics? Or fancy photoshoping mine

 

[Jordi17]

With pics of mine?

 

[Will.]

Just with silver calipers. Any car. Just want to see what they loook like

 

[Jordi17]

Mine

 

[Nick_P]

Im dying for a set of turini's in 15, so if you do ever fancy a change...

 

[Will.]

Hmm looks good on your car because its a light colour next to black wheels. cant see it looking good next to mine though. Would just look like brake dust covered calipers lol.

 

[Jordi17]

What about black/white? Or green?

 

[Will.]

Green could be an idea. Do you mean black and white as in like 2 colours together? That could be different

 

[Will.]

Im dying for a set of turini's in 15, so if you do ever fancy a change...

Will bear it in mind. But no matter how much cleaning they require, i love mine

 

[Jordi17]

No i didnt mean that, but it could work i spose, be hard to paint though lol.

 

[Will.]

Nothing a bit of taping up and steady hand cant fix. Hmm tempted

 

[scott1205]

just black i think mate anything else i think would clash

 

[Jordi17]

Give it a go then mate, be the first to do it too!

Which way would you do it, half and half across or down the middle?

 

[Will.]

Not sure tbh. Maybe down the middle. Would be easier to do.

 

[Jordi17]

so left wud be black and right white or something like that.

 

[JJT]

I would recomend getting bigger wheels aswell with lower profile tyers for a better look.

shut up....

those wheels are fine.

id paint them silver if it was mine...

 

[Evoss]

shut up....

those wheels are fine.

id paint them silver if it was mine...

Was a "RECOMENDATION", its personal opinion..

 

[mark123]

I saw some gold ones. Think I might try that, looked good.

Maybe not with white wheels though.

 

[Will.]

Yh gold would look good on anything but white wheels lol. Im torn between red, green or black/white.

 

[Ash87]

black

 

[alex-avfc]

Go black (Hammerite Smooth).

See if you can get hold of a trolley jack and an axle stand, jack the one side up, support it on the axle stand then remove the wheel.

As has been side, quick going over with a wire brush, then paint with 1 inch or similar brush, then once painted leave for around 8 hours.

 

[Jordi17]

Yh gold would look good on anything but white wheels lol. Im torn between red, green or black/white.

black/white will keep the theme up

 

[Will.]

black/white will keep the theme up

IM thinking that aswell. Just dont know how to go around putting it on the calipers

 

[Tigger]

^ Take the wheels off first :lolup:
I laughed so much at that one!

 

[Will.]

^ Take the wheels off first :lolup:
I laughed so much at that one!

PMSL me too.