hi all, just fitted new rear discs, hand brake shoes and pads.

The discs are coated in a silver type paint, any how they really show up the rusty calipers,

I intend to give the calipers a service and replace any worn bits as required.

Has anyone painted the calipers and if so what brand of paint did you use, what undercoat did you use.

I will be painting them in black.

I have used high temperature paint on a bike cylinder block but not on calipers before.

cheers

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This is why I retired as an information officer with a public sector pension

http://www.eurocarparts.com/caliper-paint

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Just seen that in copper, list is never ending!

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That's more banana surely?

When I had an Alfa GT a specialist that I knew stripped the callipers down refurbish and then powder coated them.

hi, thanks for the input, to be honest i looked at the calipers today and decided to leave them alone.

they are very rusty which for a 2012 car is very disappointing, but to do a decent job will take ages

i want to keep this car and do want to sort the under body corrosion but with holidays coming up i will sort something out but not sure when.

I have just done my calipers as they were looking well rusty.
Bought a tin of black brake caliper paint off eblag (even came with a free paint brush)

Just about managed to paint the outer edge of the calipers without taking any wheels off.
Bit of a half job but it does look a lot better. Martyn

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You could paint them yellow and everyone will think that you have ceramic brakes.  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
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dorsetfreelander wrote:

You could paint them yellow and everyone will think that you have ceramic brakes.

i think its the discs that are ceramic

Thinking of getting a set myself at this price:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/?iid=321833915473...amp;chn=ps FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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weekender wrote:

dorsetfreelander wrote:

You could paint them yellow and everyone will think that you have ceramic brakes.

i think its the discs that are ceramic

This may be true but I think you will find that anyone daft enough to spend serious money (a couple of £k per corner) on ceramic brakes wants to advertise the fact with yellow calipers.  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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