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Old May 5, 2014 | 01:26 AM
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Painted My Brake Calipers
So, I painted my brake calipers and put a chrome Mercedes Benz decal on it. Now it looks brand new! I also painted the center hub and the dust shield as well. Figured I share the result with you guys. I used VHT High Temp wheel paint in "Graphite". Got it at Auto Zone. Looks really good in person, especially with the flakes in it. I got the chrome decal off some Korean seller on eBay. It was a whole decal pack with a bunch of Mercedes decals. Works great and the details are on point.













BTW, Please excuse my dirty car, it rained all last week
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Can you post the link to the decals? I'm been thinking of doing yellow kit on my car
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Looks like new! One of these warm days I will try this.
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Images aren't showing for me but I'm assuming this was the spray version? If so, how hard was it to prep and apply?
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Yeah, it's just the spray paint. Cleaning is easy, I just cleaned it with brake cleaner and wiped it down with alcohol before spraying. I made sure to tape up as much of the rotor as I can before spraying and taped up my shocks area. Then I traped around the wheel well to the paint area to ensure no overspray hits the paint.

Here's the link to the chrome decal. They are nice in person. http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Quality...-/281310939956
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Surprised you didn't go with a color. Most people who bother to repaint calipers usually do.
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Surprised you didn't go with a color. Most people who bother to repaint calipers usually do.
lol, you should have seen it before, it was freaking teal. I regretted it the moment I painted it. Had to go back to something clean, and the Graphite did the trick for me. It wasn't terrible, but it just didn't do it for me.

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Looks good IMO. I like the OEM look or a neutral color for the stock caliper. Im not a big fan of adding color to them to draw attention to a stock part.
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lol, you should have seen it before, it was freaking teal. I regretted it the moment I painted it. Had to go back to something clean, and the Graphite did the trick for me. It wasn't terrible, but it just didn't do it for me.
LOL I have seen this pic before somewhere in your build thread. The len & lighting kinda hide the teal caliper very well
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LOL I have seen this pic before somewhere in your build thread. The len & lighting kinda hide the teal caliper very well
haha, yeah, I was going for a HDR movie look when I was editing those photos.
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Calipers and rotors look great!
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Calipers and rotors look great!
Thank you man!
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