Looking at painting the calipers on my Silver Prodrive WR Sport. She wears silver 17" prodrive speedlines and I'm looking for any examples of 'THE' colour of choice for the calipers.

There's the obvious;

Black (boring?)
Silver (obvious?)
Red (Mmmmm..)
Blue (OK on Sonic blue)
Gold (well..)

Then there's the white lettering? Silver? Gold?

Damn, decisions decisions decisions.

Have you guys gor any good examples or choices before I take a paintbrush to my prode and joy.

 

I'd say Silver mate, keep the colour trend, think the others might look a bit odd. IMHO

Enjoy!

- Bee

 

Here are mine done with halfords hight temp paint..!!

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=773627...ze=1&nostamp=1


http://images.fotopic.net/?id=773626...ze=1&nostamp=1

Dan

[Edited by dhorwich - 8/23/2003 10:30:13 PM]

[Edited by dhorwich - 8/23/2003 10:30:47 PM]

 

cant see them, sorry

please try harder

 

22B has red with white lettering as standard...
so i copied...
not having a 22B..
looks nice.

 

I would go with red. The golf gti anniversary editions are red and look smart.

 

dhorwich

how did you manage to get the white paint so perfect on the letters?

 

Thanks guys.

Dhorwich. You've done a cracking job, especially with the lettering. But I think red will be a little loud for the silver, and my tastes.

Bee. The more I think about it, the silver option with black or red lettering sounds cool and understated.

So that's the front runner so far.

Anyone got any pictures of such a setup??

 

i think you should goo red .. they look better as the dust settles on them

 

Alan C

my car is silver and they look fine..!

I just got my girlfriends old nail varnish brush to paint the letters white.. bit of a fiddle but worth it..

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=105613...ze=1&nostamp=1

Dan

 

Bugger. I've just bought the silver brake caliper paint from Halfords as well.

They do look good mate, plus you don't have to use your missus as the excuse to get YOUR nail varnish out!

Thanks mate, I'll do a test paint with the silver and see what happens.

 

I have done mine in Silver for my silver scoob and they look pretty good.Wanted to do them in Indigo blue, not dark blue but couln't find the colour.
I do reckon red will look good tho!

 

We are going for STI pink on our V2 should look mad!

 

just like its owner!!!
I cant believe Kev is gonna paint them pink for ya...
when you having them done specialx

 

I think they will look ace!! well very different anyway.

 

I have just done mine in red, and will post some piccies soon, but it looks l.ike you have decided on silver.But will post anyways.

 

Red looks Fantastic on silver cars
Like Dhorwich and Swiis Tony I went for red with silver

Excuse the state of car

 

Krade.Nice looking calipers but you need to clean the front of your car.It looks a tad dirty.Shame on you.

 

yeah I got a smudge of Burgandy Ford Focus paint on the bumper, should be sorted and back on the road in a few weeks at most

 

I did this a while ago on my DBM wagon. Looks OK, but I'm thinking of changing the colour.

J.