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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:12 AM
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painted calipers

just finished painting my calipers bright red om my black cooper and i think it looks ace at least till u get up close and see my dodgy paintwork just wondered is this a commonly done thing and has any one painted theres in strange colours other than the standard
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:14 AM
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What no pics?
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:19 AM
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just finished painting my calipers bright red om my black cooper and i think it looks ace at least till u get up close and see my dodgy paintwork just wondered is this a commonly done thing and has any one painted theres in strange colours other than the standard

i know quite a few people who've done it and it looks good you just have to keep cleaning them and a quick re-paint every now and again. Brembo are now produce yellow callipers which look quite cool. Fortunetly i have the jcw ones already painted lets see some pics

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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:28 AM
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I want black calipers... The Brembos look mighty fine...
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:30 AM
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sorry guys i gt no pics
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 10:33 AM
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sorry guys i gt no pics

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Did mine light blue (just to be different), but TBH not sure about it, so haven't got round to the rear yet.

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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 01:05 PM
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i did my old punto blue so that the car was the villa colours
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 01:17 PM
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yeah, it's a problem with BEP - red, yellow, nothing really goes with it

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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 05:48 PM
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Mine are also red looks great due for a re paint this wk end! ill post some pics when ive done it!
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Old Nov 29th, 2006, 05:56 PM
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I am seriously considering this when my car arrives. However just a few questions if I may?

What sort of point would I have to use, and is it a case of just popping into halfords for some?

My car is black with polished R99's so what colour do you guys reckon would look best? I was thinking about maybe yellow or blue. But had some suggestions that it might look good just painting them silver...


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if you paint them silver which in all honesty would give it the clean look paint the hub too..


halfords sell it on the hothatch section for around £20 comes with cleaner also..

I went for the touch of red to match the S badge..

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might do mine at the weekend red me thinks as i was going for yellow but ....

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Old Nov 30th, 2006, 02:54 PM
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if you paint them silver which in all honesty would give it the clean look paint the hub too.. ..

Second this - did mine too; looks better, plus is usually easier to clean than bare alloy.

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