bigvern

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Based on what colours I have in the garage, I'm thinking about painting them silver with black coloured lettering

Anyone else done anything different... mine is a savanna green bug so I'm thinking red might not be right

BTW Wheels are std silver

bigvern

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Or black with silver lettering...

Claaarkio

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Just painting mine the original colour of red with white lettering, may not be original but looks damn good, still waiting for the white paint to be delivered, hoping to get the 2 pots off and the 4 pots on tonight

will get pics up asap

J200WRX

i had mine the usual red with white lettering.
them i had a mad moment and went sti pink with black letters.



and now they are samco blue with white letters

mr.sheen

not too in your face grey with white lettering maybe

KJD Mk1

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My repainted 4 pot on my old bugeye, black and gold

bigvern

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Liking the grey

mit

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Did mine last weekend.

scoobz72

they look great!

Marin

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So how do you get such neat lettering back on the calipers?

scoobz72

steady hand and patience. Its raised so it can be done neatly. Another method is to cover the letters with masking tape, then use a scalpel to remove the letters only, leaving the exposed letters.

stuartknox

did mine with smoothrite spary and white hammerite with a radiator roller(the hard one)



also did rears, got stickers for them though




looks good

scoobz72

Really liking those wheels and calipers!

mit

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I painted them red,then ran a file over the lettering when dry,which gave the white a better surface to stick to. That roller idea sounds much easyer!

Flaps

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They look great those mate, very professional!

The Rig

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i painted mine blue,thats what i had left from doing my 2pots and the rears were still blue so did the 4 pots blue.

left the subaru letterin alone,so its all blue.

i think any more paint on them and they will rub my wheels,the clearance is about 2/3mm at present !!!

mine were quite rough condition wise so it was hard to polish them up to smooth castging

mit

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Yeah, mine were very rusty on the backs mostly,used a small pin hammer to chip it away,then finished with a wire brush.Took ages!

zs_phil

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do you have to use caliper paint or can you use hammerite as i have a full can of black and mine are desperate for a paint

i thought they had to withstand a certain temperature

SwissTony

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Have done both mine and my girlfriends scoob

Hers before




Hers after



Mine in red



Mine now in black (has white lettering now)