Painting calipers dragon green

[al_bey]

Hi all,

I want to paint my calipers exactly the same colour as my car, Ive found some dragon green spray paint on halfords website. Do you think this will do the job ok, or will it just flake off. Do people have any other ideas on what i could do / use?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10151&storeId=10001&partNumber=199158&langId=-1

Feedback will be appreciated.

[Mikester]

The problem is, will it take the heat...... :/ and also with the brake dust will it clean up good.

I used hamerite paint, athough you wont get it in dragon green BUT you can mix it to a close match.

Maybe that is worth a thought, as it will handle the heat and clean up good.

The halfords paint you linked too is for body work, i have had some recently, it would need to be primed etc and im not sure how it will handle the calipers.

Maybe some1 else has some thoughts......

 

[Len]

Try it and see mate!

But I doubt it will last very long!

[Mikester]

Try it and see mate!

But I doubt it will last very long!

Yeah, what i thought, its body paint, try mixing hamerite i reckon.....

[al_bey]

Thats what i suspected, probably peel off after one long outing in the car! I think mixing hammerite is the best bet yeah. I was thinking about it and it doesnt really need to be perfect colour match on the calipers, if its close, it will still look good. What did you use to clean yours up?

I was think WD40 and a wire brush!?

[BobbyT]

it wont take the heat, has to be a heat resistant paint

[kells]

i use hammerite, which isnt supposed to take high temp either??

my mate once used normal spray paint and it was fine.... never crumbled off or anything, give it a go, if it goes sh!tty, just re do them using hammerite or similar

[boneybradley]

hammerite.... and dont use wd40, buy some aerosol brake cleaner from your local motor shop and scrub away!

[graemewelch]

when i fitted new calipers on me maes car, i painted them red with 2 k paint, that was 6month ago and they are still mint, the prep will be determine how long they last

[saul79]

if cleaned properly it will stick mine where fjord blue pearl same colour as me car ,i cleaned em with the sandblaster to get all the rust off