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Which colour calipers do you think will look best on my black GTD?

Black
6 (26.1%)
Red
13 (56.5%)
Silver
4 (17.4%)

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Offline Buck

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Painting Calipers - What colour?
« on: 28 March 2011, 12:01 »
OK I've deep cleaned and sealed my wheels over the last couple of weekends and also spray painted the disc centres with matt silver as I was sick of seeing the rust on them (appears to be a typical VAG issue as had it on my Audi too) They look so much better but with the wheels off I realised just how grubby the calipers are looking.

Rather than just cleaning them up I will be painting these too.

As it is a black car - what colour do you think will best suit? I like the idea of red (prompted by GTD 2010's Mod'd car) but wonder if that is a bit "in your face"? Black is o-so subtle and silver is more OEM.

Tell me what you think?

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Offline Rhyso

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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #1 on: 28 March 2011, 12:09 »
Kawasaki Green  :laugh: :laugh:

I'd go silver  :smiley:

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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #2 on: 28 March 2011, 12:12 »
I`ve been considering the same...on a black car too.
I think red will look like you`re trying to add a bit of GTI to a GTD and will prolly get a lot of criticism from the GTI boys on here, I`ll be going either black or gunmetal grey with mine, I tink.
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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #3 on: 28 March 2011, 12:19 »
Kawasaki Green  :laugh: :laugh:


Now there's an idea!! ;)

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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #4 on: 28 March 2011, 12:20 »
What wheels do you have?

Gold is quite nice, I've seen it done before. Blue would look too much like the old R32.
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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #5 on: 28 March 2011, 12:20 »
What about blue, same colour as the R32  :huh:

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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #6 on: 28 March 2011, 12:27 »
I would playsafe and paint them red, especially as they would standout nicely on a black car.







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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #7 on: 28 March 2011, 14:01 »
Yellow would look great  :cool: differant from the rest
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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #8 on: 28 March 2011, 14:19 »
Red would be good choice  :smiley:

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Re: Painting Calipers - What colour?
« Reply #9 on: 28 March 2011, 17:28 »
I always liked the skodas when theres were green.
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