Thoughts on Caliper Paint colour?

[Nharris89]

Hey all! I'm planning on cleaning up and painting my calipers in a couple of weekends time (the wife's away which means I get to play!) I've narrowed it down to two colours, but can't decide between them! I thought what better place to ask for opinions than here! So I've a Toledo blue zed, and I'm stuck between yellow or blue calipers. Based on the photo of my car below, what would you all go for?!

Thanks in advance!

 

[ben g]

Silver :fuelfire:

Blue will look weird, because the car is blue.

Yellow could work, but I'm no longer a fan of painting standard calipers in fancy colours. Not only are they a pain to keep clean, they also advertise the rubbish looking standard calipers.

I once painted my focus st225 calipers bright orange, to match the paintwork. The fronts looks great, because they were big chunky calipers. The rears looked rubbish. They also looked terrible when covered in brake dust :thumbsdown:

 

[Davz]

Silver....... although bronze can look OEM and doesn't scream "look at me"

 

[Anonymous]

Love a yellow caliper personally

 

[Mr Tidy]

I'd probably stick with silver, but if you really want a colour I think yellow would work better than blue on a blue car.

 

[Bing]

I’d go silver too, but make sure you do the anti-rattle clips bright silver whatever colour you go for.

I did mine carbon metallic grey last year, but that was to go with the shadow chrome refurb I just had done. Not a great pic of the calliper, because I was trying to photograph the wheel mostly

 

[biojo]

blue for me

 

[Doddsy]

Silver on standard calipers is a good clean look

 

[Nharris89]

You guys are brilliant! I love the silver look as well, that's a nice clean and crisp look. I'm now torn between silver and yellow :rofl: i'll post photos of what I go for when it's done! Either way I'm going to paint the anti rattle clips silver, I love that look!

 

[wonkydonkey]

Last week's thread on caliper colour opinions:

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=114517

 

[Doddsy]

You guys are brilliant! I love the silver look as well, that's a nice clean and crisp look. I'm now torn between silver and yellow :rofl: i'll post photos of what I go for when it's done! Either way I'm going to paint the anti rattle clips silver, I love that look!

You could always paint one side silver and one side yellow :lol:

 

[Jl-c]

Paint front yellow and rear silver on one side, then live with it for a week or so. You will know what colour to do them by then, but you will get some funny comments

 

[Nharris89]

You guys are brilliant! I love the silver look as well, that's a nice clean and crisp look. I'm now torn between silver and yellow :rofl: i'll post photos of what I go for when it's done! Either way I'm going to paint the anti rattle clips silver, I love that look!

You could always paint one side silver and one side yellow :lol:

My word I think you've cracked it :rofl:

 

[Thrustyjust]

They arent 'pretty' calipers, like Brembos or AP Racing, but bog standard and in getting sorted for new rims next weekend, I have painted mine a fantastic





Silver

 

[Migizi]

I don't think red is so bad

 

[mackharry]

+1 for the silver

 

[Capa]

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]

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]

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]

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...