Painted Brake Calipers
 

I was thinking about painting my brake calipers but was wondering if you had to take the wheels of to do it. Is it a diy or is it best left to professionals?

Shouldnt be hard if you can do brakes you can do this
I think Duplicolor has a specific brake caliper paint in many colors
I dont think this job has to look 100% professional because they get coverd with brake dust quickly anyway. I have the hugely expensive carbon brakes on my porsche with Yellow calipers and they get dirty quick.
This would be a 3 on the DIY scale of one to ten-10 being the hardest.

I agree...I painted mine red...very easy to do using the high temp caliper paint...you could search for some pictures in another thread.

Yes you should remove the wheels. I did my 330 it is an entire day project but worth it imo. Im getting ready to do the X soon with silver caliper paint.

Here's a question....With mine being white color would you guys use? I would rather not use white but everything else might look odd. Maybe silver.....

Black.

Red

:iagree: Black or Red

I am thinking about doing this to.

What color on mine? Prob Red huh?

:iagree:

I vote for silver. Unless you can do red with a glossy finish I don't think it looks that good. The OEM calipers are such a rough texture that colors just look so dull and the brake dust tends to fill in the rough spots so they do look dirty easily. Granted, today I was :drool: over some Brembos on oazn4er's X5. Nothing even comes close to the real thing.

Go with silver and also paint the clips silver. :thumbup: