nitrofour

Title says it all. I wonder if they are available for purchase (just the calipers alone). I'd like to replace all four of the stock ones since my new rims leave a lot of open space and I'd like to put something in there that looks a bit better than stock Mercedes gray.

C300Sport

Have you thought about painting the calipers? Not quite as nice, but cheaper and keeps everything under warranty.

bigigg

yea go with the color of your car.. or red is always niice

maverickvii

New calipers aren't really going to fill the space or even necessarily improve the performance. You really need larger discs to take care of that, especially with bigger rims with more rotational inertia

Flame3g

hey i think eurotech makes some and brembo makes them to

Azn_C300

You'll need to replace the disc...can't just replace the calipers. Brembo and Euroteck (Rotora) have applications for our cars.

angeloxnet

brembo's like to squeak :P

nitrofour

thanks, guys. the problem is that i HAVE, in fact, painted my rear calipers (black). but it looks like crap. i'd like to get a comparable (to stock) disk+caliper setup for all 4 for a price under $600. is this possible? (obviously it wouldn't be brembo at this price)

white46

even stock will be more than $600.
any aftermarket setup, you are looking at BBK which will be easily over $3000.

Azn_C300

You're missing a zero in that price....

PolePosition

+1 I painted mine red since it was the color I liked best with my Palladium silver C

angeloxnet

Do you know if the "mercedes-benz" plate on the caliper is a seperate orderable part? because for some reason one of mine is completely faded out

PolePosition

While painting my caliper I looked to see if there was a way to remove them but I didn't find it. But I would assume that you could remove it and order it separate.

Azn_C300

I kinda highly doubt they'll allow you to order that separately. You'll most likely have to order the whole unit. Just as you can't just order a new chrome trim part if you broke it on the front grille, instead having to order a whole new grille.
If it's fading, just paint over it like I did with my original set. Didn't like the two toned look on mine so opted to go full white

angeloxnet

hey can u post a full side shot of ur car, wanna see what the calipers look like from a distance (curb appeal)

whkento

Hey, PolePosition, I like that look! I'm guessing you had to take the calipers off of the car, right? Also, what kind of paint did you use?

Azn_300, the white looks good, too, but I think the red would look better on my car. (What kind of paint did you use?)

Azn_C300

I just used cheap G2 caliper paint kit. You don't need to remove the caliper to paint, just put it up jack stands. G2 will last you probably a year or so without caliper clear coat, which was fine with me cause it was just to hold me over till I got my Brembos. Yeah, white I think only looks on white cars and even then, with black wheels for the contrast. Red is way played out with yellow getting close.

C300SportFahrer

Just curious, but your sig says Brembo BBK in it and those are not Brembos from what I see.....what's up with that?

Shawn

Azn_C300

older pics. Brembos for our cars were just released about a week ago. Waiting for the front lip before I do my photoshoot.

C300SportFahrer

figured as much but figured i'd ask, didn't mean to put you on the spot

what was the price of the kit?

please post pics soon

Shawn

hutch300

oh thats mean to make us wait

Azn_C300

Got hook up pricing cause the shop I work for is the largest Brembo distributor in norcal and I'm their first w204 full build up. Figure anyone else will probably be looking in the $6.5-7k range.

I'll post pics next week.

Flame3g

yeah that pricing make me wanna but you pay for quality i guess

Djames007

Have any pics of your new calipers from farther back?

Normandie4life

i painted my calipers all black since my car is black but i am thinking of repainting it red with black i will post some pics