Brake caliper painting

[The_Hawk]

They look pretty good!

I've sprayed a couple of cars now with mixed results. The Mk3 came up very well and seemingly lasted longer, the Cab was a bit of a rush job and has flaked off over the years (probably because I didn't prep well enough). Something I keep meaning to do again. I'm interested in trying out the paint on version since it's probably a little cleaner (and easier) than having to mask everything up.

As for wheel caps, I went the other way after swapping wheels and finding that the stock bolt dust caps didn't fit anymore... chrome bolts

[Kachingg]

I can get black bolts for it but black wheel caps are much cheaper lol

The caliper painter has a 2 year warranty on his work and told me it should be good for 10 years+ as he primes it does 2 coats of color puts the label on then 2 gloss coats over the top

[Kachingg]

Upgrading my brakes to golf r setup just got the new ones painted in Candy Apple Gold

[Kachingg]

They are on now looks good

[THR300]

Any good workshops in Sydney?

[Kachingg]

Any good workshops in Sydney?

You will have to hunt around i found my one by surfing the net (found out they were a customer of mine )

A lot of good quality paint workshops(ones that do custom painting) will do brake calipers not a cheap exercise but worth it

[yeders]

was it difficult to pull apart all the sections you need to paint? then to clean and prime the parts?
mine are filthy.

[Kachingg]

was it difficult to pull apart all the sections you need to paint? then to clean and prime the parts?
mine are filthy.

i was lucky that i was upgrading my brakes to larger discs/calipers so i had them all separate and at the painters while still driving the car with the old brakes

But yeah pulling them off and cleaning would be a pain in rear end worth it for the result but time consuming