Thoughts on Caliper Paint colour?

mackharry · Post by **mackharry** » Sun May 19, 2019 11:17 pm

+1 for the silver

Capa · Post by **Capa** » Mon May 20, 2019 9:58 am

I quite like Foliatec Carbon Grey.

Got a bit of a flake in it, so it looks slightly different in the sun. Wears brake dust well too.

As someone said earlier; using lurid colours to draw attention to the fact you've got boggy single pot calipers isn't a good idea in my book.

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Mon May 20, 2019 10:24 am

Capa wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 9:58 am I quite like Foliatec Carbon Grey.

Got a bit of a flake in it, so it looks slightly different in the sun. Wears brake dust well too.

As someone said earlier; using lurid colours to draw attention to the fact you've got boggy single pot calipers isn't a good idea in my book.

That was exactly the one I used, but I posted a s**t picture

MACK · Post by **MACK** » Mon May 20, 2019 10:59 am

With the bog standard crappy looking calipers it's got to be either silver or grey. Any thing else looks very boy racer corsa. Now if they were some decent 4 or 6 pots it's a different story but BMW were late to the party with these, even on M models.

Capa · Post by **Capa** » Mon May 20, 2019 1:50 pm

Bing wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 10:24 am
Capa wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 9:58 am I quite like Foliatec Carbon Grey.

Got a bit of a flake in it, so it looks slightly different in the sun. Wears brake dust well too.

As someone said earlier; using lurid colours to draw attention to the fact you've got boggy single pot calipers isn't a good idea in my book.
That was exactly the one I used, but I posted a s**t picture

Man is not wrong! I only just noticed that

I actually ended up throwing some HT clearcoat over the retaining clips. Seems to have lasted relatively well...

paulc_bkk · Post by **paulc_bkk** » Mon May 20, 2019 6:18 pm

Dare to be different....

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Nharris89 · Post by **Nharris89** » Tue May 21, 2019 1:53 pm

So I've gone for spraying just the one yellow for now. Thanks for all the feedback and info, it's really helpful to get everyone's take on it and it seems very split down the middle! So far im happy with the yellow, but I'm going to live with it for a couple of weeks to see if it grinds me down or not!

MalNCH · Post by **MalNCH** » Tue May 21, 2019 9:21 pm

Migizi wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 11:07 pm I don't think red is so bad
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Must admit I do like red, I'd have done the anti-rattle clips silver though.

tomrdy · Post by **tomrdy** » Tue May 21, 2019 11:59 pm

Nharris89 wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 1:53 pm So I've gone for spraying just the one yellow for now. Thanks for all the feedback and info, it's really helpful to get everyone's take on it and it seems very split down the middle! So far im happy with the yellow, but I'm going to live with it for a couple of weeks to see if it grinds me down or not!

Looks good! I've been considering yellow as well to go with my gray wrap. Let us know how it wears (brake dust wise)

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Sun May 26, 2019 6:32 pm

Nharris89 wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 1:53 pm So I've gone for spraying just the one yellow for now. Thanks for all the feedback and info, it's really helpful to get everyone's take on it and it seems very split down the middle! So far im happy with the yellow, but I'm going to live with it for a couple of weeks to see if it grinds me down or not!

So what paint and how easy is it to do?

Nharris89 · Post by **Nharris89** » Sun May 26, 2019 6:42 pm

Nanu wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2019 6:32 pm
Nharris89 wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 1:53 pm So I've gone for spraying just the one yellow for now. Thanks for all the feedback and info, it's really helpful to get everyone's take on it and it seems very split down the middle! So far im happy with the yellow, but I'm going to live with it for a couple of weeks to see if it grinds me down or not!
So what paint and how easy is it to do?

I've used etech caliper paint. It's really easy! But I'm going to take the rattle clips off next weekend and spray those all silver. There's some great YouTube tutorials on how to do it, I basically tired a shopping bag around the disc and covered the whole wheel arch in newspaper to make sure I didn't paint anything I didn't want to! I'm happy with it now so the other three will be done next weekend

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