135i Brake Calipers - Sweet!
04-26-2008, 03:53 PM
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My Ride: 2008 Alpine White 550i Sport, Cream Beige Interior, 6-Sp Manual - retired 9/2011
Why can't the 5's come with these bad boys? I took this pic today at the dealership while picking up my old car after its one year oil/oil filter change. 
04-26-2008, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by JeffNNJ' post='568886' date='Apr 26 2008, 09:49 PM
Agreed. Our cars have hideous looking calipers.
04-26-2008, 09:51 PM
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My Ride: 2008 Alpine White 550i Sport, Cream Beige Interior, 6-Sp Manual - retired 9/2011
Originally Posted by 1esquire' post='568906' date='Apr 26 2008, 10:10 PM
+1. I have thought about painting them before, but then that would just draw more attention to how ugly they are. Maybe I need some of those ebay fake brembo covers to go over my stock calipers.
04-26-2008, 10:20 PM
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very nice.
04-27-2008, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by DrLev99' post='568980' date='Apr 27 2008, 01:51 AM
I actually sprayed my 530xi calipers with some Dupli-Color caliper paint I got at the local parts store. It was pretty much stock color silver/gray, but they actually came out great. I didn't even have to be too careful since the color was already stock...no big deal if I got overspray on the rotors. It really brought them back to new, even though that's not saying much.
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My Ride: 2010 VW Passat Wagon 2.0l Tsi
Grey/Grey Budapest 18"
Lost to HPFP issues:
08 535i sport pkg
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In europe there are an upgrade for the 128's and maybe the 135s , there are oem Yellow/gold bmw sport breaks as a dealer installed option... Don't know why you would need them on the 135 with the 6 piston 's stock