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Offline Banham

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how to paint your brake calipers??
« on: March 31, 2011, 01:31:17 pm »
thinking of painting my brake calipers but no sure on what tools are needed or how to do it.
be grateful for for tips on how to do a good job

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Re: how to paint your brake calipers??
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2011, 03:08:47 pm »
I used a wire brush attachement on an angle grinder (remember to wear goggles as bits go everywhere), a normal wire brush and a metal file for the fiddly bits. Cleaned them up, sprayed with brake cleaner then painted and tehy look great  :happy2:

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Re: how to paint your brake calipers??
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2011, 06:47:57 pm »
wont the brush damage the calipers ? :scared: what can i spray cuz i dont want to spray something im not ment to?. Has oneone got any pics?
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Re: how to paint your brake calipers??
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2011, 11:44:16 pm »
I just did mine the other day.  Cleaned them down with a wire brush and gave them a good de-grease!  Paint I used howevver was halfords own engine paint (red obviously).  Stuff realy did the trick.  Too a long time to dry and it looks great.  Gave it 3 coats mind you just to make sure all is sealed.

Put this on my old Leon Cupra TDI and it lasted forever and stayed shining.  Only £6 a tin aswell.

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Re: how to paint your brake calipers??
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 08:40:36 am »
My last car was notorious for getting very hot brakes (S2000) after several attempts at painting them
the best stuff I found was e-tech caliper paint (available from loads of places and eBay). Wire brushed them
back then de-greased and painted with a brush and that never ever burnt off!