Painted my calipers today...

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rluck9277

Discussion Starter · Sep 10, 2010

When I wash my car I always use wheel cleaner on the wheels. And apparently my brake calipers didn't like the Meguires wheel cleaner I used cause there was some kind of a reaction with the coating on the calipers and it created these black marks on the calipers and anyways they looked kinda nasty. Not that anyone comes up to my car and says " your calipers look like crap", but I notice. It has been like this since I bought the car and first started using wheel cleaner on it.

SO the other day I picked up a Dupli-Color Caliper paint kit and painted them today. I choose black, thought about red, but to me red calipers signify performance, and my car is defenitly not a performance car. I think they came out good, here are a few before and after pics.

Before Front

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Before Rear

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rluck9277

Discussion Starter · #2 · Sep 10, 2010

I took the brakes completly apart and took the caliper mounting bracket off to paint it. It was very easy, when I need brakes I will be doing them myself. Didn't remove the caliper, just used a pair of needle nose pliars and a hook to hang it in the wheel well. The rear caliper was kind of a pain in the butt because of the parking brake cable, but I got it done. Here a couple pics with the wheels on.

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rluck9277

Discussion Starter · #11 · Sep 13, 2010

LTZ Malibu said:
Nice job rluck9277, I did mine the same way as yours but used the G2 caliper paint instead, it's an epoxy based paint and looks like powder coating, one thing I'd do is buy caliper stickers from ebay, here is mine to get the idea.

Yeah that is nice! Where did you get the slotted rotors?

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