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Anyone Painted Calipers Red on 156

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#1 ·
Thinking of painting my calipers red on my black 156 2.0 TS veloce. Thought they may look good through my teledials. Good taste or bad taste?

Presumably need heat resistant paint, and understand that you can get Alfa transfers as well to go on them.

Has anyone done this. What paint did you use? Who do you get the 'Alfa Romeo transfers' from. I presume they can be sprayed whilst on the car providing everything is masked up?

Has anyone got any photo's.

I thought of doing this after seeing the GT Cloverleaf, which has red calipers.
 
#2 ·
Try a search .. quite a few have done this.

Stickers from ebay!
 
#5 ·
chav, chav, chav....
 
#8 ·
done mine best stuff fr the paint is a trip to halfords B&Q etc dont sell this colour, and the caliper paint sold is sh1te.
Hammerite smooth in red :)
plus the high temp decals off ebay.
here's mine.
Also how the Hell is this Chav? every sports car going has coloured calipers now.
I say N3rd for not doing them....
 

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#10 ·
Lesson 1:

RED CALIPERS implies BREMBO 4 pistons/pots

red on 'sliders' = wanna have Brembos but can't be arsed buying them

ergo CHAV!!!
 
#12 ·
red on 'sliders' screams

look at my small penis ...eeerrrr ....calipers/disc's :eek:
 
#13 ·
ok...
im sure there are many other cars with painted calipers as factory standard.
Red and silver.
Honda civic type S Golf GTI Volvo's
Subaru's

I dont think painted calipers implies anyone a small penis.

Lesson 2
Dont listen to **** talkers from Ireland talking about Small penises
 
#14 ·
To be fair, Alfa Romeo has painted the standard 284mm calipers red on the limited edition versions of the 147 (Ducati) and GT (Cloverleaf). Now I've seen these calipers close-up in several dealerships and to be absolutely honest it doesn't look right. I know it's all down to personal taste but you know when you're looking at them that they're standard calipers painted up, even the retaining clip is not painted so this stands out a mile against the red caliper. Why Alfa didn't fit the 305mm red brembos to these cars I'll never know but at least they would have looked better through the 18" wheels.

In short, I wouldn't do it, if you want to look convincing (and get better braking) fit the excellent radial 305mm Brembo kit. Expensive, but at the very least you won't look like a wannaby. And to the disgrace of Alfa Romeo, this is exactly what they've done to the otherwise excellent limited edition cars mentioned above.:rolleyes:
 
#15 ·
lesson 3. never **** off a potential rim buyer :)
 
#18 ·
sssshhhh!!!!
 
#19 ·
Halford's do brake caliper paint £9.99 per tin.

Mgicsy: Service Eng is BB! Oops have you put your foot in something? :eek: He's reasonable enough ... I think .... ;)
 
#44 ·
mandatory for Nova owners isn't it ... :lol:
 
#21 ·
I saw a old BMW 3 series recently that had painted his brake calipers ... front looked ok ... but on the back he had drum brakes, which he's painted red and then stuck a motorbike disk onto it to make it "look" like he had rear disk brakes :lol: :lol: :lol:


(shame I was in a hurry otherwise I'd have got a photo :()
 
#41 ·
yes they do look better red than rusty calipers , how much did you pay for the gta alloys please ? are they the replica ones or second hand ? the only thing i could say about the home sprayed calipers is the finish is not as smooth as the brembo red calipers , so brake dust would stick to them easily. and will look a bit dirty . i have some supersport alloys and cant decide wether its worth it to change to the gta teledials . do you have any photo`s in your gallery of the car please?
 
#27 ·
Hey they look awesome if you do them right.

Subtle is best for me : ) i went black

You might as well get the best paint - Foliatec 2 pot mix- much better finish/resistance then sprays.

Doesn't look chav at all i think it's a great detailing point... as long as you don't shout about it!

only pic i have is my sig
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#28 ·
Looks :cool: ... although I'm still going to do mine Red because I do like to shout about it :thumbs:
 
#37 ·
When a guy on the French forum posted pics of the 156 he was planning to buy, in order to ask the other members what they thought of it, the most frequent response was "Those red calipers smell of 'tuning' (chav)... run away from it". Personally, I think they look great, but I wouldn't want to scare away half of the potential buyers at re-sale time.
 
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