Caliper Paint

[JazzJPH]

Now then,

I've tried searching and couldn't find anything so:

I've gathered from daffyduck that I can use hammerite for painting the calipers. But I'm looking more into doing this, so does anybody know how I go about it?

Do I have to take all of them off, or can I just remove the wheels and do it like that? How much cleaning down do I have to do because all I got is a sponge....

[john_h]

i did my peugeot blue, with caliper paint from halfords and a small paintbrush...took my wheel off used a wire brush, to scrub the crap from around the area then painted, waited till it dried and did a few layers and did it that way. took me no more than one hour

[JazzJPH]

Originally Posted by cck2k9

i did my peugeot blue, with caliper paint from halfords and a small paintbrush...took my wheel off used a wire brush, to scrub the crap from around the area then painted, waited till it dried and did a few layers and did it that way. took me no more than one hour

and when did you manage to get back on the road?

Nice one, all in all cost?

[trem1]

Originally Posted by cck2k9

i did my peugeot blue, with caliper paint from halfords and a small paintbrush...took my wheel off used a wire brush, to scrub the crap from around the area then painted, waited till it dried and did a few layers and did it that way. took me no more than one hour

i did mine red this way with caliper paint bought from ebay, only thing i did slightly different was to slide a piece of paper between the brake pad and the caliper so i didnt get paint on the shoes

before




after


and from a little further away

[daffyduck]

They are very dirty. Best way to do it is remove the caliper, put in vice and get a wire brush attachment for an electric drill. They come up like new, nice and silver, ready for painting.

[JazzJPH]

Is there much in taking the caliper off? Ie bleeding brakes etc?

[pugsick]

......sorry to but in but just a thought.. I wonder what painted callipers would look like if they were in the same colour as the body. Id have thought pretty cool.

(obviously wouldnt work in black or dark colours).



'butting out now'

[JazzJPH]

I'm gonna try get mine red as i had that thought also.

I'll post pictures when done. Trem did you clean them down etc?

[trem1]

Originally Posted by JazzJPH

I'm gonna try get mine red as i had that thought also.

I'll post pictures when done. Trem did you clean them down etc?

yea just give them a good wirebrushing tbh, couldnt be bothered to take them all off, bleed brakes and all that.

[daffyduck]

Easy enough really, I have a silver 307 and have done mine in silver. I also painted the caliper bracket.