Painting brake calipers

How? LOL

Do you take the caliper off? Or do it with it on?

Is it spray or brush on?

Any advice please!

tbh mate, i'd do it with the caliper on, just dont smudge it onto the pipes etc.

i used Hammerite a few years back on a Polo and looked great.

Yeah stick some silver hammerite on them.......makes them look loads better! Before you paint get a wire brush and give them a scrub, to get all the rust off.

I did my sisters clio the other day, took me about half an hour, but thats only got 2 calipers

Just jack up and remove the wheel (support properly with axle stands etc) and as previously mentioned remove loose suface rust with a wire brush and spray with brake cleaner for the full clean effect.

Then use Hammerite for the cheap option and a 1" paint brush and just take your time and don't rush and only paint the caliper and parts really visible through the wheel.

Repeat on other side or all round if you have a fancy car!

Liam

Coming soon funny link of how not to paint your brakes!

FAO James,

Not like this one mate!

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1389610

Enjoy!

Liam

PMSL at that!

Nice one!

I should have had some paint in, as I ended up swapping my wheels across opposite corners.

Contented myself scrubbing my wheels clean inside and out instead

This is the way to do them.NOT

pmsl

How stupid can you get???

You have to admit it would be fast doing it like that

but it looks so good

Ok to answer the original question.

You can do it both ways(you already know how not to!!), easiest way is with them on, place a sheet of newspaper between pad and rotor and brush it on(or spray, but it´s easier to brush on)

Make sure you use high temp paint or it will come off after a few braking sections!!

sorry to hi-jack the thread but im also considering painting my calipers and drums, mine are already painted yellow but i want to paint them black, would i need to take all the yellow paint off them first before i could re-paint them

Mine were silver then black and now red, haven´t taken any paint off yet(they might run a little hotter though)

i don´t really think it´s hi-jacking since this is related

cheers, i will take a wire brush to them anyway just to get rid off the flaking paint, if there is any, ive decided to paint them black cause yellow is very hard to keep clean

lol I wanna know how the guy who painted his rotors red had the intelligence to get the wheels off the car

The daft bugger must have gone **** it i'll paint the lot