Painting Brake Calipers

[AndrewJB]

lookign to paint me brake calipers and drums as they came standard in grey from new and they are starting to go brown.

whats the best stuff to do them with?

been looking at demon tweeks (as i live close) and they sell like a paint and laquer set

pref want a green colour which i beleive came on the vrs skodas?

 

[Nath.]

hammerite is very good for calipers and comes in green too, try B&Q

loads of people have used hammerite to very good affect me included on 3 different cars now

did mine without removing the wheels but I'm a lazy git

 

[Aimez]

I used Hammerite from Focus, took off wheels used a wire brush and lots of wheel cleaner to get rid of brake dust first then didi a few layer with a few hours srying time in between and left it to harden over night. I put Seat decal on too!
I need to touch up the rear brake calipers noticed just today that I didn't do enough layers!

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[chrissyb103]

If i were you i would spray them using high temp enamel paint (i think thats what i used) as i tried painting them and it was really difficult, i took the wheels off and rubbed the callipers down and sprayed them red, ill post up some pics for you when i get home, really neat job.

 

[josh263uk]

Painted the ones on my TT with Japlac, from B&Q. Different colours availble. Highly recommemded. Need better weather.

Finished:

During:

 

[chrissyb103]

as promised heres pics

 

[Big_Lad]

Can't go wrong with this stuff. I used a Dremel with a wire brush head to remove all the loose flakey paint, then got some brake cleaner from halfrauds and used Hammerite to paint them, 30 minutes in between coats, gave 'em three coats.

 

[chrissyb103]

as i said before i used spraypaint and am sure they have come out glossier (shinier) than the paint!

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Mine didn't come out that well and I used the same stuff!

Shiny wise I mean! Look the dogs though! Hammerite Smooth all the way!

 

[mixupz]

What about blue...do you think blue would look good?? like the colour on the new VXR's?

 

[Nath.]

as promised heres pics

liking the FS front calipers with the white in the lettering

 

[chrissyb103]

it was difficult to do but it came out well