Painted my rotor hats today
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For now, I moved the most rusty bolts to the back wheels, where they are burried in the rim.
I never had this paint flake off, it seems rock solid, like it bonded with the rotor. Give it a try!
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I just did all 4 of mine today, with Duplicolor high temp caliper paint (with ceramic)...less than an hour total, once the car is already up & wheels off. All 4 of my wheels are getting refurbed, straightened, trued, welded, powder coated, so the car is up on 4 jacks for a few days. Perfect time to do it. I'd post pics but I have to resize them and upload them. Personally, tho, I'd much rather put 5 or 6 light coats sprayed than hand brush. The masking takes like 3 minutes a wheel, and the finish is so glossy you can see the holes in the rotor reflected in the paint. Rock hard finish, too..All the time is in the prep, derusting, etc, which you have to do regardless. The other reason I did mine, was that the wheels were VERY difficult to remove, and the cause was easily seen by the galvanic corrosion residue on the tangs of the wheel hubs. Even painted, I'll still use some anti-sieze on the tangs to be safe.
Last edited by perryinva; 04-28-2008 at 06:08 PM.
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I just did all 4 of mine today, with Duplicolor high temp caliper paint (with ceramic)...less than an hour total, once the car is already up & wheels off. All 4 of my wheels are getting refurbed, straightened, trued, welded, powder coated, so the car is up on 4 jacks for a few days. Perfect time to do it. I'd post pics but I have to resize them and upload them. Personally, tho, I'd much rather put 5 or 6 light coats sprayed than hand brush. The masking takes like 3 minutes a wheel, and the finish is so glossy you can see the holes in the rotor reflected in the paint. Rock hard finish, too..All the time is in the prep, derusting, etc, which you have to do regardless.
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AHHH, when I post my pics, you'll see why that was not possible for me!! My fronts (which are about a year and 6k miles old) were SOLID 100% rust on all non-pad surfaces...impossible to paint without a lot of prep. My rears were about like yours, so prep was much shorter
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I did mine yesterday also. I sanded down the fronts because they were rusty. They turned out well. I took pics but have to figure out how to resize them for posting here. I have doubts about the paint lasting due it not being high heat spec'd. The wheels get hot and they are attached to the rotor hat so I assume they get hot as well. The rotor disc certainly gets very hot. We'll see. If the paint fails it's no big deal as this was an easy job and could be redone with the caliper paint, even though I'm not looking for a high gloss look.
I uploaded some pics. The first is one of the fronts before. The second is one of the fronts after being sanded. The third is after painting but before wheel mounting. I'll take another with the wheel on and the paint edges smoothed from the pads.
I uploaded some pics. The first is one of the fronts before. The second is one of the fronts after being sanded. The third is after painting but before wheel mounting. I'll take another with the wheel on and the paint edges smoothed from the pads.
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AHHH, when I post my pics, you'll see why that was not possible for me!! My fronts (which are less than a year and 2k miles old) were SOLID 100% rust on all non-pad surfaces...impossible to paint without a lot of prp. My rears were about like yours, so prep was much shorter
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Andy, yes same paint brushed on. The reason they were so rusted (just the front ones) is because when I painted my calipers late last fall I was going to paint the hats then so I prepped them. Which means they were down to bare metal over the winter. Anyway, after I finished with the calipers I was exhausted and didn't feel like messing with the hats. That's about 6 months of rust.
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That's a nice gloss on that finish!!! As glossy or glossier than mine..easy to see the rotor holes. Mine were bit rustier than yours, but I did more prep and got 99% of all the rust off, then wiped down with acetone before I sprayed. I'll post pics tonight. deckman, you painted your black calipers, red? With spray on caliper paint?
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Perry, I painted the black ones red using Duplicolor caliper brush on paint. It took at least four coats for the calipers if I recall correctly. I did spray on a couple coats of clear. I should have done my hats then when the car was masked, but i was shot and done with it.
Funny you mention the high gloss on the hats. I wasn't going for that really, just wanted to get rid of the rusty look. The flash from the camera makes it appear more glossy that it really is. This was a truly easy job. Took the opportunity to clay and wax the inside of the wheels while all of them were off.
Funny you mention the high gloss on the hats. I wasn't going for that really, just wanted to get rid of the rusty look. The flash from the camera makes it appear more glossy that it really is. This was a truly easy job. Took the opportunity to clay and wax the inside of the wheels while all of them were off.