midnight AMG

anyone paint their calipers red? DIY or professional...

I was quoted $300.00 plus for "intensive labor"

M-bENZ

Alot of ppls here have done that already including me. Just do it yourself.

Andy

Newjd2

I bought my g2 caliper paint kit off Andy and it was cake...


Angelo

Kevwood

Is the G2 kit the one with the base and clear coat, 2 step? After seeing a bunch of red calipers behind black wheels, I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon too.

Newjd2

Yup...has the paint and reactor to ensure strong adhesion...works and looks great...only 6 hours max before paint hardens after you mix the paint and reactor...



Angelo

Kevwood

Thanks for the info, guess it sounds like a good kit. I'll have to order some MB caliper decals too I guess.

Newjd2

Xenonmods.com for the one that says Mercedes-benz is where I got mine...after 20 days...lol...///AMG ones are all over eBay...


Angelo

Kevwood

I was just on their site and see they are available. I'm not putting AMG decals on my stock MB calipers, that's just setting one self up to get flamed on this board and rightfully so

Klinh

I understood what you're say about the decals but I think we actually get the old AMG version of the C55 and Slk 55 calipers. Those calipers get AMG decals from factory.

sleepyheadzzz

paint it urself...

dynomite05

Lol, am I the only one that didn't paint his own calipers? I had them done by my shop and I believe I paid $75-$100 a caliper for a 2 stage paint and clear with the Brembo logo.

kevblah

No worries, I would have done the same thing if I were you. The brakes that you have are too nice to be potentially ruined by a DIY job.

dynomite05

That's what I figured also, I didn't want to take the risk.

juanchente2004

Did somebody knows how reliable is Xenonmods? I order my decals over a month ago, it was charged to my CC next day and never received them Sent a couple of e-mails and non-response.....

dynomite05

Do they have a number you can call?

juanchente2004

Just ckecked the web and no phone just e-mail................

dynomite05

Call your CC company and see if they could maybe dispute the charge.

Newjd2

Same thing happened with me...it took them 25 or so days until I received it....I disputed and escalated it with paypal and all of a sudden the showed up with no response of emails or phone calls...

dynomite05

It's a shame what passes for customer service these days.

EuroTra$H

Nope I had my done professionally as well.

Jhuey

I really want to paint mine but just don't know what color. I'm running the white and black theme and the red is a little too racer looking for me to do to my stock calipers. I have a 500 so they are the brembos but their not a bbk so I don't want to draw the attention to them as if they were. Any suggestions? I was thinking silver but was just looking at my car from a distance and think it would get lost with my rotors

dynomite05

You don't want to draw attention to them, so any bright colors are out. The only real options you have left are color match, black, or silver.

EuroTra$H

My silver OEM CLK500


Subtle but I think it works out great.

Kevwood

+1. In my opinion, you've got one of the nicest clean looking 209's on the board. Sometimes, as in your case, less is more.

Kevwood

Thats good info and combined with EuroTra$H's stellar job on his calipers, I'm going to have to re-think my decal options