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.
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....
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.
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 )
Just replaced the standard alloys on my 147 with GTA teledials.Painted the calipers red as they are now on show.In my opinion they look better painted than having rusty calipers peekin out from behind my new alloys.Cheap but effective mod.
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?
also i think if you have a good deft hand you don't actually need to remove the calipers as it's a mission.. the foliatec is paint on so i just had a plethora of brushes and took my time.. you need to remove the retaining spring pin which is hard enough to do.
I just used a high temp paint and applied by brush but I wasn't after a perfect finish. Never took the calipers off. It was an acceptable finish for me.
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.
I prefer to see clean non rusty looking calipers rather than crappy lookings one, mine were looking shoddy so i painted em like many here. If you dont like red then I would still paint em if they look rusty, paint em black if need be.
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