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Think Ive ruined my calipers UPDATED

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Do you like the caliper colour on my car?

Yes
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No
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Post by Pastry » Sat May 20, 2017 5:40 pm

Ive spent the last day or so cleaning my calipers and painting them red which I thought would go well with the dark blue body, that is until I refitted the first side :o Im really not sure I like them!!! :cry:
What do you guys and girls think?

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Im tempted to go back to black or anthracite or maybe I just need to get used to such a dramatic colour change, any other suggestions? (No to green and yellow so lets no go there :P )
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Post by mr wilks » Sat May 20, 2017 5:43 pm

Epic fail in my book mr P :cry: they aren't the most fetching calipers to start with so i'm not a fan of drawing attention to them no matter the colour or standard of job :(
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Post by john-e89 » Sat May 20, 2017 5:48 pm

An admiral job Pastry, but oh deary me....go and have a large beer and schedule in for a re-paint.. :thumbsdown:

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Post by Pastry » Sat May 20, 2017 5:50 pm

mr wilks wrote: Sat May 20, 2017 5:43 pm Epic fail in my book mr P :cry: they aren't the most fetching calipers to start with so i'm not a fan of drawing attention to them no matter the colour or standard of job :(
Thats kind of where Im at with them Mr Wilks, hoping for support but if I'm honest I'm not expecting any!! :cry:

Im sat looking at the other side of the car stripped down, calipers and carriers ready for painting and I can't bring myself to open the red paint again :!: :( :(
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Post by MickAdams » Sat May 20, 2017 5:52 pm

I think it looks good, but I went blue with black clips when I did mine last week. I think I prefer mine :P
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Post by Beedub » Sat May 20, 2017 5:54 pm

Red works imo!! i like it!! Just do a good job and they will look great!

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Post by Angelus666 » Sat May 20, 2017 5:57 pm

On the standard callipers, then a silver/grey/black are the only options IMO (you actually don't want to draw any attention to them)....I think the red look bloody awful, sorry :(

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Post by Pastry » Sat May 20, 2017 6:01 pm

[quote=Beedub post_id=1425177 time=1495299285 user_id=1605]
Red works imo!! i like it!! Just do a good job and they will look great!

Theres nothing wrong with the quality of work I can assure you of that! Those calipers are a darker red which I prefer however, the caliper itself is much better looking which is half my problem, trying to make a purse out of a sow's ear..
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Post by Smartbear » Sat May 20, 2017 6:13 pm

Try a silver or black clip to remove some of the redness, might dull them down a little :?
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Post by Nictrix » Sat May 20, 2017 6:18 pm

You have done all the hard work, just repaint them a different colour before they get too dirty and you have to start all over again.
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Post by Pures3 » Sat May 20, 2017 6:19 pm

I was going to paint mine red. I'm gonna do them in black now I think. They look really bright on the pictures, do they look quite bright in natural light too?

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Post by MrPT » Sat May 20, 2017 6:21 pm

They'd look better with silver clips. Still... not for me either, sorry. Silver or black for the stock calipers.
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Post by MACK » Sat May 20, 2017 6:23 pm

Pastry wrote: Sat May 20, 2017 5:50 pm
mr wilks wrote: Sat May 20, 2017 5:43 pm Epic fail in my book mr P :cry: they aren't the most fetching calipers to start with so i'm not a fan of drawing attention to them no matter the colour or standard of job :(
Thats kind of where Im at with them Mr Wilks, hoping for support but if I'm honest I'm not expecting any!! :cry:

Im sat looking at the other side of the car stripped down, calipers and carriers ready for painting and I can't bring myself to open the red paint again :!: :( :(
I'm with Mr Wilks on this, even on an M like yours they aren't the sexist things ever. Never quite sure why BMW never put 4 or 6 pots on the M of this vintage. Nuts when you consider you can get nice 4 pots on a F20 1 series diesel since they came out and the previous gen 1 series 135i had 6 pots available around the time the Z4M was in production. I would just give a recoat in silver or grey, maybe even black. All three would look better than the rusty look and at least all your efforts wouldn't have been in vain!
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Post by Dietcokeman » Sat May 20, 2017 6:30 pm

Oh FFS , you come around here asking me to turn that sows ear into a silk purse and then go and reverse all the turd polishing I did. ! :headbang: :D I know your jealous of my Imola Red M but honestly mate painting it one piece at a time isn't going to help ! :rofl: :poke:

Seriously though , just doesn't look right, as Rob said, the clip at least needs to be a different colour, but somehow the red just looks like a cheap nail varnish on such a classy car, darker red maybe would work , but for me black is the way to go with silver clips.

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Post by AlfaScozzesi » Sat May 20, 2017 6:30 pm

Totally agree with the thoughts that the calipers aren't a "show" item. On the Zed M the show are the discs which look great :thumbsup:

I painted mine black and did the spring clips in silver because of this.

I do like red calipers on both a dark and light car and had red brembos on my old Alfa which looked great.

The BMW performance brakes are better but even then still not the most asthetic.

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