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Painting Calipers... Black or Red?

Old Jun 23, 2012 | 11:40 AM
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Painting Calipers... Black or Red?

The title says it all. And in case it matters, very soon, I will be painting my stock rims hyper black.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 11:55 AM
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Black if you have stock breaks, you don't want them standing out.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 12:26 PM
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i would paint them the same color of the car.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 12:37 PM
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Black (or silver) for sure, no reason to draw attention to OEM brakes.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 01:47 PM
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black
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 01:52 PM
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No red on oem brakes
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bjs470
No red on oem brakes
ditto. I did silver on my OEM 2 pistons. Looks OEM but cleaned it up.

I've done black before on calipers. It was semi regrettable. I kinda cleaned up the look, but if you looked for them they appeared to be smaller.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 02:58 PM
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Silver or black.

Anything else on stock calipers is rice.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 03:57 PM
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either or will look good..red will stand out more.
 
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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 05:26 PM
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neither. why paint oem calipers.. they look bad.
 
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Old Jun 24, 2012 | 05:54 PM
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^ stock calipers usually look rusty or ashy. Nothing wrong with painting them black or silver to make them look clean
 
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Old Jun 24, 2012 | 08:20 PM
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i got a red kit for free. whenever i have the time, i'll be doing it red.

anything is better then rust.
 
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Old Jun 24, 2012 | 10:16 PM
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neither. why paint oem calipers.. they look bad.
Agree. I always lol when i see painted floating calipers. Just leave them alone or wash them.
 
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Old Jun 25, 2012 | 01:16 AM
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Agree. I always lol when i see painted floating calipers. Just leave them alone or wash them.
really? You laugh at black or silver brakes? It's a neutral color smh
 
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Old Jun 25, 2012 | 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by BlkSedan4me
really? You laugh at black or silver brakes? It's a neutral color smh
Yes. I always see it as pretty rice. They are crap OEM brakes, nothing you color them will make them anything else.
 
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