Painting my calipers

What colour calipers?

  • Blue

    Votes: 2 20.0%

  • Black

    Votes: 7 70.0%

  • Gold

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • White

    Votes: 1 10.0%
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Hey! Decided my first mod would be to paint my calipers. Cheap and easy and will (hopefully) look good! Just can't decide on a colour...

The car is glacier white. I fancy blue with the Audi rings decal on in white so they stand out. Black looks good too but is black really that noticeable?

Just can't decide...
 

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Black with either quattro sticker in white or Audi rings in white. Had that on my previous audi and need to do again on my A4 3.0.
 
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Black, unless you intend to wear baseball caps and shellsuits.
 
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Painted mine black and they turned themselves gunmetal grey haha, personally like red if you can keep them red.

Way back when I remember my friend painting his drum breaks gold which I thought looked really cool at the time but when I see painted drums now they do make me chuckle, no two ways about painting calipers being a cheap mod but if the OEM's paint them different colours on different cars it's hard to see how us doing the same is tacky; another of my friends did red calipers on a quick Jag and I didn't know any different until they told me, looked ace.

Best of luck, I'm sure they'll turn out good whatever colour.
 
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DieselJake said:
Painted mine black and they turned themselves gunmetal grey haha, personally like red if you can keep them red.

Way back when I remember my friend painting his drum breaks gold which I thought looked really cool at the time but when I see painted drums now they do make me chuckle, no two ways about painting calipers being a cheap mod but if the OEM's paint them different colours on different cars it's hard to see how us doing the same is tacky; another of my friends did red calipers on a quick Jag and I didn't know any different until they told me, looked ace.

Best of luck, I'm sure they'll turn out good whatever colour.
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Cheers. I've ordered a tin of Hammerite in smooth blue and some Audi decals. Less than £8 for the paint so nothing wasted if they look awful (sure they won't!) and need repainting.

Just a question. Anyone take the clips off to paint the caliper or is it just a case of wheel off, clean and pair?
 
I always find it a bit “barry boy” when standard callipers are painted a stand out colour especially with stickers. Unless they are uprated brakes or a proper RS model etc just stick to black so that’s my vote ;)
 
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I went silver with S Line decals:

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I am also planing to paint them and I decided to go with black due having black edition :)
But need to pay off the car loan first...
 
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