Painting rear calipers yes or no??

[S3 Paul]

As ive fitted my bigger rear brake kit and im thinking of referbing my Brembo's ( keeping the red colour )
I was thinking of painting the rears too, I went as far as buying the paint then...
" its going to look a right boy racer car " was heard from the kitchen ,
What do people think? Im unsure now

 

[jojo]

Yes is my answer, says the guy who has a tin of red caliper paint sitting in the cupboard for the last 5 years! lol

 

[666markyboy]

well at least they were in the right place.... The Kitchen

 

[s3clarke]

i find it a right pain in the *** job, its obviously not hard but its getting the motivation to do it lol. it'l look better tho with them done as dirty back calipers will look wack

 

[aragorn]

I painted mine black.

Better than manky rusty mess, but not chavvy.

 

[s3 Hoggy]

Go on Paul do it! I don't think mine look too boy racer

 

[S3quatt]

Just do it! Have a search on ebay & get the decals to match...

 

[JayP]

Red calipers are not boy-racer at all. Alot of supercars/high performance cars with huge brakes have red calipers so I would do it.

Always best to have the rear calipers the same colour as the fronts otherwise it'll look odd in my opinion.

 

[666markyboy]

If i remember rightly when i refirbed the rear discs on mine the caliper is actually Aluminium alloy so i got one of those wire brush attachments you can but in an electric drill and gave them a good scrubbing so they came up nice a silver shiny... then i put a clear coat of laquer on them and i painted the cast iron carrier red to match the fronts.... or do i have an odd car with alloy rear calipers ??

 

[carl-1968]

These are mine, thought the yellow went well with the black

 

[Vex182]

It think its good to having them matching around. At least we all have discs around, I hate big red drums on chav cars!

 

[Dan-Jnr]

Both the same colour, front and rear, end of.

 

[anderswhk]

I sprayed mine red, as they were starting to get a whiteish surface in places. I'll probably spray them black instead, once its time to switch rims.