How Clean?? And black on black?

[HOLEIN1]

Hey all, decided to do a little caliper painting this weekend (great previous threads/pics on the topic btw) and im currently cleaning the calipers; how clean is best?! Jeez they are dirty! And its taking a heck of a lot of elbow grease!

Cheers!

as most have mentioned brake cleaner usually eats through most of the crud...

perhaps try cleaining them with some soapy water and a brush to get most of the build up off and then hit it with the brake clean...

ideally you should disassemble the whole caliper assembly and it it with a wire wheel in a drill, but thats a hell of a lot more time consuming, and some decent results can be had with a bit of careful preparation while still onthe car...

post up some pics when youre done!

[blue_reality]

Mate, I've made a DIY How To Video on it which you can find here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mhq_BrnU0

And I did it to my MK4 GTI with RS4 Rims - here's a video of the job and the final product...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnATHMft7o

Let me know how you go or if you have any questions!

[Golf Loon]

All wheels look the same painted black, especially in pics IMO.

Might as well have $100 steelies as $2000+ BBS if you are gonna paint em I reckon.

[fuzion]

Sebs S3 has Blue on Black



Mels GTI is red on black, looks good imo!





reminds me i need to respray mine, its pink! .. dunno hwo that happened....

[peter-xll]

Thanks all for the advice; all done now, gave the car a quick (not as good as usual standard) clean this arvo so this is how it ended up (see attachments)(if i have managed to use this properly!) If anyone has seen this style of wheel painted, how did it look/turn out?

Cheers

[Scouser]

All wheels look the same painted black, especially in pics IMO.

Might as well have $100 steelies as $2000+ BBS if you are gonna paint em I reckon.

Yep I agree.
Thats why I just painted the stockies,
Mind you the reason I did mine was I reckon the grey standard finish mags made it look like a hairdressers car.

Dave