Quote Originally Posted by tonymy01 View Post
My post disappeared, I was about to edit it to put it more on topic earlier.

I can't believe how ratty the brakes looked on your PP after so few kms. You have tidied them up very nicely, how will you keep that stainless hub part shiny though (edit:-ahh, I see it is just shiny black and reflecting rather than shiny stainless)?
Did you get a template/stencil to get the gti logo back on, or was that part just a clean up job (or a sticker)?
So many new bits already into your GTI! Nice one, always like reading your threads to get some new ideas.
Yes the brakes did indeed look ratty. The people who owned the car before me lived about 1km from the ocean so that probably contributed to it too. But yes I just used a wire wheel to remove as much of the rust off the hub etc and then gave it a few coats of a high temp black paint. They look much better now.

I didnt paint the calipers, they were grubby but underneath all that dirt the calipers were undamaged. So the red you are seeing is the original finish on the calipers - just nice and clean now. The GTI logo was already there (because my GTI is the Performance Pack it has the larger Golf R disks and calipers and they come with the GTI logo on the front calipers).