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05-24-2008, 07:46 PM | #1 |
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Anyone painting their calipers?
Has anyone thought of painting the stock calipers in red (or any other color)..?
i think they would look cool, and if you want to keep your B M W lettering on the calipers its as easy as making stickers and applying clearcoat over them. Ive seen it done in other cars , mainly audis where they put the rings on the stock caliper, but the 135 caliper looks wayyy better. heres an example: anyone wanna try it out?:iono: |
05-25-2008, 08:51 AM | #2 |
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Powdercoated red would look awesome. Remove,disasemble,blast,coat,cook,add BMW in black,reasemble,replace and bleed.
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05-26-2008, 04:54 PM | #5 |
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hell ya, i am gonna paint/powder coat my calipers red. i am also having the same guy powder coat my rims jet black. i ordered my car metallic black with coral red interior...its gonna be sick.
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05-27-2008, 12:18 AM | #6 |
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I will be painting mine white
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05-27-2008, 02:22 AM | #7 |
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Yeah i will be painting mine but I debating on what shade of red I want. Also i cannot stand brake dust so im waiting for ceramic brake pads first. Brake dust drives me crazy. Anyone feel free to come out with some good colors for the calipers. Im looking for a red or maybe something that just stands out any thoughts Im open to idea's
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05-28-2008, 07:50 AM | #10 |
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At a driving event, I've literally had plumes of smoke coming off the brakes, they were so hot. The stock caliper paint was unblemished, and I figured it would have bubbled off. Make sure that you use paint specifically formulated for calipers, or you'll ruin the paint if you ever get the brakes hot enough to bake that new paint.
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06-26-2008, 09:13 PM | #11 |
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I thought about painting my calipers red (crimson red car), but have decided to just paint the BMW letters red instead of the stock white. What do you guys think about this idea?
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06-27-2008, 03:57 AM | #12 |
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I´m gonna paint mines in red color,and get me an noheat Brembo´s decals on ebay and put on them i think it would be so nice dont like bmw on it prefer brembo like they are.For the pain job i might get a G2caliper paint from ebay they seems to be good.
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06-27-2008, 10:25 AM | #19 |
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I was thinking of doing it this weekend. The idea was to powder coat the wheels gunmetal, but the brakes didn't really show well in pictures I saw. So, red it will be...
The cost was estimated to be $400 for the brakes. Is this too much? Would it be better to just replace them with new calipers that are originally red? If I remember correctly the BBK was over $1K.
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Aren't the letters recessed a little bit? If so, I was just going to use the BMW touch-up paint in the same color as my car (Crimson Red) to paint the letters.
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don't use the touch up paint...you need paint specifically made for withstanding the heat produced when you get on the breaks.
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