Painted calipers... poser-ish or ok?
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One can choose from a couple colors on the new generation (sorry, I refuse to even type it).
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Same here. My Porsche dealership powdercoated my calipers with my color choice before I took delivery. Their Motorsport division did the work and recommended powdercoating over paint. I am very pleased with their work and the final product.
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Nice, what kind of paint? Anything special?
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Take the calipers off, 90% of the project's success is prep... Clean, sand, clean, sand, and when you think they are clean enough, clean again. The other 10% is how good you are with a spray.
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Good Morning, do you have a photo with the calibers on. I like the combo with gaurds Red. do you recall what gray color you selected and where did you get the porsche decal.
Thank you
RD
Thank you
RD
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I went back and forth on painting my calipers. Every time I walked up to my car they bothered me. I hated the Weber grill faded black. Had Wheel Dynamics paint mine and I could not be happier. Looks 98% as good as a factory job. It was a pain and expensive but I'm happy. I've painted some myself with high-temp paint, decals and clear coat but they always start to yellow after a while and do not look nearly as good as what Wheel Dynamics did. Thought a lot about color matching the Graphite Blue but that started to get real expensive.
I went with red, not because I'm trying to look like an S model but the color just looks right with black wheels and red taillights. I really like the contrast with the wheels. If painting them red makes me a poser then I'm a poser and can live with it.
I went with red, not because I'm trying to look like an S model but the color just looks right with black wheels and red taillights. I really like the contrast with the wheels. If painting them red makes me a poser then I'm a poser and can live with it.
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I think they look good albeit I would have done Black lettering - did you ask for White, which is the OEM color?
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It was their stock decal with stock caliper color that is called Guards red. I agree I should have differentiated the decal. It's also smaller than the stock one as you can see in the picture.
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