Another dead R......

[nick-barnes07]

get them stripped down and powder coated in red again , get some brembo stickers of e bay , and then get them laquered

 

[Deleted member 12147]

I was thinking of doing them myself, i want to strip them back down to bare metal. I'm not sure what colour to do them though either red again or silver.

 

[Deleted member 12147]

Well they fitted no probs, with loads of room left behind them. I'm well chuffed with my bargain.

 

[nick-barnes07]

get them done in anthracit colour , or grey , instead of looking the standard colour

 

[Deleted member 12147]

I want something that'll standout behind the rims, grey would blend in to much imo. Would i need to use primer when painting them? can you get high temp primer? Or should i just spray the bare metal with high temp paint?

 

[andyj]

it those pics, it looks like you've just fitted the Brembo's over the std 280 discs..... or was that just to trial fit them ?????

 

[Deleted member 12147]

Yeah, i just wanted to see if the calipers fitted behind the wheels. So i left the standard discs on.

 

[jamie paton]

mate check out the how to refurb brembo's thread on the mk1 leon section , for fifteen quid they'll come up brand new. mines are the last set of pics on that thread. all you need to do is pick off any loose laquer and re- laquer them 5 times or so and they look like brand new, mines were worse looking than yours and i never would have believed they would come up so good.

before, during and after. really easy. the thread is called refurbing brembo's for dummies. it'll save you a fortune.

 

[Deleted member 12147]

Yeah i've seen that thread, they look good. I want to do a full refurb because the paint has been completely stripped off on parts of the caliper. I think it is a common problem with Ibiza Brembo's, the caliper sits very close to the inside of the rim and can scrub, taking the paint off.

I could just sand them down, repaint and lacquer but i want to do it properly and go back down to the metal.

 

[Dan Cupra R]

I refurbished mine cos they were fading like no tommorow. Like everyone says, stickers from ebay

 

[Havok316]

very nice mate! Just refurbished mine a week or so ago very good guide!