Red Calipers!! :D

[sanander]

I've had my Clio (my first car) for about a month now and I have sprayed my callipers/drum brakes red. Took me a few hours but it has gone well and looks very smart, plus I must thank my dad who has helped me a lot because he is interested in cars like I am so he’s got a lot of experience. I am on here mainly because I love my pride and joy and want to show it off. lol

The paint I used was by Mean Machine (Red Primer, Red Gloss)

Now I’ll shut up and you can just look at my pictures below -

Paint i used:



Drum brake cleaned and preped for spraying:





Drum brake sprayed with Red Primer:



Drum Brake sprayed with Red Gloss:



Caliper Cleaned up:



Caliper Sprayed:



Clio done but bad lighting:



Front Wheel:



Back Wheel:



Thanks for looking

Danny

 

[Zmaster2k]

Should of used High temp paint or enamel.... brakes get hot...

 

[Bazz]

I've just bought some red hammerite for my front callipers, hope it looks good on a RB

 

[MonacoDan]

Should of used High temp paint or enamel.... brakes get hot...

^ This. Don't think it will end well with rattle cans :S

 

[Scrooge]

Red is awful, black on drums only mate, you don't want to advertise you have drums.

 

[guysy]

Why would you want to make drum brakes more obvious? paint them black would be the best option.

 

[Daze]

Callipers looks cool... Not so sure about the drums though...

 

[.Steve]

Looks good! I want to do mine blue. Not sure if ill be doing my drums now though, not massively keen.

 

[WAR 23N]

Calipers look good matey but I have to agree with some of the people here... I'd have to paint the drums Black.

Car is looking well though, nice and clean... Everything you do to your car is for your OWN taste... Dont let anyone else put you off something you want to do to your own car, if we listened to what everyone was saying we'd all be driving round in cars that are identical loool.

 

[Martin.]

Calipers look good dude. But for me, drums need to be black!

 

[Gally]

At least you used tyre gel.

 

[SC03OTT]

Calipers - Meh
Drums - No

Note to myself, fire a set of JK Tyres on the Focus as I never do more than 50 on my commute to work. Save myself about £70 a corner.

 

[sanander]

Everything you do to your car is for your OWN taste... Dont let anyone else put you off something you want to do to your own car, if we listened to what everyone was saying we'd all be driving round in cars that are identical loool.

Thanks for the reply and i totally agree with you, you should do things to your car because it makes you happy etc

 

[is1]

At least you used tyre gel.

Hopefully not the spray on "ice rink simulator"!

 

[JoedotwasT5phy]

Jueebus. Do people really need to just **** it off for the fun of it?

It looks smart enough, i wouldn't have bothered with the drums personally, but you're 17 - do what the f**k you like, we all would have done the same at your age.

 

[Adam G]

Welcome to the site, ignore the Alonso, Kimi, Lewis wannabes. As said it is a 1.2 Clio, hardly going to be racing it's tyres off are you. They'll probably tell you to get T1Rs. Hope that's not another user put off by "experts".
your car=your choice.
Enjoy!

 

[MartinR]

^^exactly what Adam said.

 

[WAR 23N]

^^exactly what Adam said.

+2

 

[sgtbash999]

It's threads like this (specifically the responses posted) that highlight just how many knob heads frequent this forum. Just because someone has sprayed their calipers & drums red doesnt automatically mean they're gonna be doing 'hand brake turns in Maccie D's car parks' etc or having it 'end on its roof' bla bla

Dont be so quick to judge a new forum member just because his tastes dont match yours. I'm not a fan of the red drums myself but that's no reason to **** him off etc. have an opinion by all means, just don't be a complete Cnut! Simple

 

[G3 NYX]

Jueebus. Do people really need to just **** it off for the fun of it?

It looks smart enough, i wouldn't have bothered with the drums personally, but you're 17 - do what the f**k you like, we all would have done the same at your age.

Are you feeling ok? Not like you to defend the haters?

 

[JoedotwasT5phy]

Are you feeling ok? Not like you to defend the haters?

Its only red callipers FFS, if he'd been caught speeding n's**t then yeah, fire away.

 

[RDH]

I like your monster dust sheet masking!

 

[devilsadvocate]

Looks like a decent job with the painting mate.

 

[Revels]

Welcome along.

Ignore the idiots.

 

[Whitey172]

Looks like a decent job, I like the calipers not sure on the hubs.
Will be interesting to see how the rattle cans hold up, if it does nt last try some high temp or Hammeright

 

[Chileno]

Cool!

I did mine yellow, also on the drums but paiting them back on black this weekend.

 

[sanander]

Welcome to the site, ignore the Alonso, Kimi, Lewis wannabes. As said it is a 1.2 Clio, hardly going to be racing it's tyres off are you. They'll probably tell you to get T1Rs. Hope that's not another user put off by "experts".
your car=your choice.
Enjoy!

To be honest didn't expect some replies i've had. Guess there are just some people like that. Thanks for the advice but I've just laughed the stupid replies off. I couldn't believe it when Cookson said that I will be flying down on farm lanes and always at Mcdonalds just from the alloys I've picked. His comment has gone now (all of them) does that mean someones like the Admin as deleted them?

 

[sanander]

Looks like a decent job, I like the calipers not sure on the hubs.
Will be interesting to see how the rattle cans hold up, if it does nt last try some high temp or Hammeright

I'll let you know if they go bad, but my dads used the same paint on his Astra and never had a problem. Thanks for the reply.

 

[MDP91]

Welcome to CS!

Looks smart tbh mate, ignore the haters. Personally I'd of done the drums black but it doesn't look bad. Good job with the masking!

 

[easym5]

You made a good job of painting your brakes Danny,keep us up to date with future mods you do
Theres always a couple of ***** with stupid remarks, ignore them mate and enjoy your clio

 

[richd]

Its ideot comments that puts me off going to meets makes me think what will people say when I get there, other than that the calipers look great, nice job

 

[G3 NYX]

Its ideot comments that puts me off going to meets makes me think what will people say when I get there, other than that the calipers look great, nice job

Everyone's too scared to say it to their faces lol, you'll be fine!

 

[MickyWelsh172]

Really want to do my Calipers red, but scared to take them off, lol. Is it an easy job getting them off???

 

[Leeshez]

Looking good .

 

[Martin_172]

red doesnt look to bad on the white car, id have gone black for the drums though, doing my twingo ones today! (first time ive owned drums since 2005 but they need doing lol!)

 

[Naith]

they'll look great... for a week.

 

[sanander]

Really want to do my Calipers red, but scared to take them off, lol. Is it an easy job getting them off???

Yeah there not hard to take off, just make sure you dont let it hang off the hydraulic hose nor disconnect it from the hydraulic hose.

 

[BlackGoldMatt]

callipers look really good mate, deffo need to do mine soon!