Has anyone painted their brake calipers?

[rfibanez]

Im going to be getting some enkei's for my mini and I want to paint my brake calipers but i've never seen painted brake calipers on a mini. has anyone done this or have pics of a mini with painted brake calipers? thanks

[zoooooom]

Yes I have,on my last mini the calipers got rusty so on my new mini I painted them silver so that they just look like new all the time,I just used Hammerite paint and I have given the brakes a good roasting on more than one occasion and they are fine,so no need for expensive caliper paint

[Hat]

is it as easy as just taking the wheels off & brushing the castings or do you need to strip the brakes down?

[Dark Mini]

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is it as easy as just taking the wheels off & brushing the castings or do you need to strip the brakes down?

Its as easy as that, just take your wheel off give the caliper a brush with a wire brush to get all excese dirt off and aply your caliper paint with a small brush, but you have to give the paint a few hours to dry with out driving anywhere.

[Hat]

hmmm.. i can feel a trip to halfords for some red smoothrite coming on this weekend

[Dark Mini]

Personally mate I would get the proper caliper paint.

[Hat]

whats' the difference?

[flipper]

I just mask/spray primer & paint mine silver with standard aerosols to stop them going cruddy over time - takes a while and is a bit of a fiddle - but as with all jobs the more time you take the better they look.
Have done this with several cars now - never had any long term paint problems

[Albert]

Couple things to consider:

1. Use brake cleaner thoroughly on the calipers before painting. You want to try to get the surface as contaminant free as possible.

2. If you plan on ever doing auto-x or race track driving with your car, you must use either a high-temp paint (like engine paint), paint made for brake calipers, or have the calipers professionally powder-coated. The extreme high heat that you can build up on calipers under these conditions can easily burn normal paint.

[zoooooom]

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Originally posted by Hat
whats' the difference?

THE PRICE

I have done over 6000 miles and they still look like new and I used hammerite and brush painted them and I also painted the part of the disc that the pads do not touch

[mrhollio]

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Originally posted by zoooooom
THE PRICE

I have done over 6000 miles and they still look like new and I used hammerite and brush painted them and I also painted the part of the disc that the pads do not touch

Can you show us a pic? Would like to see how it looks with the disc section painted...

TIA

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