Brake caliper refinishing
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Brake caliper refinishing
My calipers are horrible looking, along with the rotors too, front and rear. Do you guy's just use the brake caliper paint kits out on the market? Do they just clean up nice? Didn't get into it more bec I was kinda pissed my lugs were too long. The factory wheels cover the calipers and rotors, the Vossen CV1's show everything...terrible looking.
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I'll be tending to this next. Brake inspection first. Just going to clean up the calipers and rotors make it all black. Hopefully pads and rotors are within specs. Those factory 19.s really hide the brakes. They all look like this and the pic makes it look nicer then it really looks.
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it works ok the paint, i dont know which kind they sell in the us, but here in europe you can get 2 kinds, one that is just spraypaint, and another from a company called foliatec that is a 2 component paint kit you apply with a brush, that is the best kit and gives a pretty good finished result
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I've been using the foliatec stuff for brakes for years. It does do a good job. I used a similar product also that work great too that brushes on. I'll just use one of those and be done. Anything is better then what it looks like now. Thought I check to see if there was something out there that I was missing. Besides a total brake upgade. Thanks.
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Got around to doing the brakes tonight. The prep work was crazy, after getting to the last one I didn't even want to be bothered with it anymore. But this is how they came out. Just plain black, nothing fancy. Ought to look much better behind the Vossen's.
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