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Painted my calipers today...

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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

After Front

Before Rear

After Rear
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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.



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Thanks. Those are r1concepts premium slotted rotors, they also have brake pads but I went with akepono pads (rockauto) all around and am so glad I did, they have almost zero dust with better initial brake bite than stockers.
they've been there for the last 4 months without a problem, they are all over ebay for ~$8-10 shipped
Here is the same seller that I've bought the stickers from
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