Brake Caliper Paint Job Pic's
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Just finished painting the calipers, attached are some pics, there's a before and after of the rear wheels, I forgot to get before pics of the front. I used the Dupli-Color kit you can find at Advance Auto stores. I couldn't find the black color so I bought it online at Amazon.com. My fonts had a lot od surface rust which is why I did it. My only suggestion is to use a better brush, I bought one from Home Depot for $1.29 which was still way better than the junk that comes in the kit. Let me know what you think or if anybody has questions.
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Looks good. I have the same problem. Everyhting seems to be rusting. Why do these cars have such cheap looking calipers? What kind of prep work was involved to ensure no pint on the pads/rotors? Did you remove the pads?
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Originally Posted by nyceric03' post='542110' date='Mar 9 2008, 09:46 PM
Nice job! makes me wanna give it a try... so you jacked up the car with the jack that comes with teh car or you used something else?
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Originally Posted by Hyper_545i' post='542344' date='Mar 10 2008, 12:12 PM
Looks good. I have the same problem. Everyhting seems to be rusting. Why do these cars have such cheap looking calipers? What kind of prep work was involved to ensure no pint on the pads/rotors? Did you remove the pads?
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Originally Posted by aresh' post='542467' date='Mar 10 2008, 02:40 PM
if i painted it white. Would it get really dirty and look horrible?
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I painted the calipers on my x5 red... i would say thats a nice color as well...but just to make a suggestion, you could jack the car up and put it on a couple wooden blocks, it would probably make things easier..
n e ways, lookin at those pics i might just go ahead and do the ones on my 5 series black as well.. NICE JOB!!
n e ways, lookin at those pics i might just go ahead and do the ones on my 5 series black as well.. NICE JOB!!