How do you guys keep the calipers nice and green? Ours have a few chips and don't clean up to a nice deep green anymore:(

Do Skoda do a paint for them? I'm told green hammerite is a good match, seen someone who painted their nissan that colour after seeing an RS.

Not sure on the paint, I always wash occasionally and coat with Atoglym extara gloss protection when doing a thorough wheel clean- never seem quite as good as they were when new. Best of luck.

John

Neil

Could try brushing on some Wonder wheels fluid.

It used to remove all the grime and brake dust on the 4 pot 'Subaru' labelled ones on my Impreza.

Test in an inconspicuous area first just in case !

my fronts have faded a little and the paint is coming off on the edges where the pad/caliper meet. by my rear ones still look like new. Especially after a blast with meguires wheel cleaner.

I always use spray on wheel cleaner anyway, various brands. Autoglym extara gloss protection might be a good thing to try, thanks:)

Mine are boring steel coloured - but it might be considered a bit Novaboy-ish to paint them green so I shan't bother. Some other (somewhat more subdued) colour might be nice though. What kind of paint is required? Presumably special high-temp stuff?

I fancy painting mine scarlet red... Something that really makes them stand out against the alloy. (PS I'm not seriously thinking about this - maybe only after I have rear spoiler, body kit, remap, springs,etc etc)

Paint 'em red:D

The calipers on my micra have been done in bright red hammerite, looks great.

Originally posted by Fabpreza in this post

Neil

Could try brushing on some Wonder wheels fluid.

It used to remove all the grime and brake dust on the 4 pot 'Subaru' labelled ones on my Impreza.

Test in an inconspicuous area first just in case !

Wonder Wheels does the job, i use it on mine

My local dealer say's that Skoda don't do "touch-up" paint for the calipers on vRS models - they suggested I tried Demon Tweeks in Wrexham - they sell special caliper paint made by a german company whose name I forget, anyway it should be a bit more robust than Hammerite - but they car has to stay off road for 24hrs for the paint to harden

I also presume that you have to take off the wheels first? Don't you start laughing now... I'm a n00bie to these things

Q.

I also presume that you have to take off the wheels first?

yep it does help....it would be a right biatch, painting a bit...turn wheel.....paint a bit more.....turn wheel etc :)

Originally posted by nockmeister in this post

yep it does help....it would be a right biatch, painting a bit...turn wheel.....paint a bit more.....turn wheel etc :)

I heard a rumour that is exactly how Jon did his callipers, and his case it was even more difficult because he has multispoke alloys. Another rumour is that he got so much paint on the wheels that he had to send them away to be repainted. Rather than have them repainted in the original colour, he opted for anthracite since this would provide a cover story for the repainting. They may just be rumours, of course.....

LOL

That might actually be true as well