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Title: painting calipers
Post by: vwchloe on 27 April 2008, 12:33

hey, what colour do you think would be best to paint calipers?? my car is metallic blue so i thought blue to match or do you think that would look  :sick:

maybe silver or black?

any suggestions or pics of your would be grateful.

Thanks Chloe

Title: Re: painting calipers
Post by: eightyeightmph on 27 April 2008, 12:53

I did a write up which is a sticky in the MK3 section.

As for colour, to make it worth while the brighter the better as you won't notice the difference if they are dark?

Red is standard & looks cool which is what I chose, but you could do yellow or silver even?

Also depends on what alloys you've got & how much of the calipers shows through?

Hope that helps! :afro:

Title: Re: painting calipers
Post by: mk2mark on 28 April 2008, 11:10

Anything less than billet 4 pots dont deserve bright paint IMO.

Title: Re: painting calipers
Post by: dabill on 28 April 2008, 16:45

silver on a blue car, bright red on a white car, anything else, black.

Title: Re: painting calipers
Post by: MarkS on 28 April 2008, 17:50

Spent saturday painting mine red.
Looks really subtle sat behind the BBS rims  :cool:

Colour coded would look cool  :smiley:

Title: Re: painting calipers
Post by: Hark on 09 May 2008, 19:20

I like red but have seen blue on a blue car and it did look pretty good.  Just make sure you can a decent match.