I'm thinking of painting the callipers Red !   anyone done this already?

They will look good, but is green not the Skoda rally colour?

 

I've seen a lot of vRS with green calipers.

 

Plenty of how to's online - thorough cleaning them first looks to be key.

Going to have mine done in the summer as they look a bit grubby. No point doing them yet, will just get ruined before paint has had a chance to harden.

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Green was on the early vRS models and then they changed to Red [emoji106]

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I also want to do this!!

It's not a hard job to do but you need to clean the callipers very well to get the paint to stay on and time to do it right.

If you got the money you can get some second hand Fabia vRS brake callipers as they fit

Gona do this after the winter. And have an other problem: the alloy wheels are stuck :-D

So gona do this after winter and lowering, the garage will have to unstuck them :-D

Gona do this after the winter. And have an other problem: the alloy wheels are stuck :-D

So gona do this after winter and lowering, the garage will have to unstuck them :-D

Leave nuts in loosely and hit the lower tyre hard

Id did, the whole car moved and almost fell. Even dropped the car on the wheel and drove a few meters. But notting, so before I wrek it, gonna leave it to pro's.

Jack car up, one wheel at a time and hit the bottom with a rubber mallet, on the reverse side, that's after loosening the wheel nuts. If that fails  leave the wheels nuts loosened off by around two turns and lower the weight of the car very gently onto the wheel on the ground, but not all the way down. This cracks the seal of corrosion with hub and wheel, be careful not to damage the studs or bolt holes though.  This second method worked fine for me when my Vauxhall alloys had welded themselves to the hub centre spigots. Clean the corrosion away and apply copper grease to the mating parts only.

 

 

I painted my calipers, on the Mazda. Going to do them again though, change of colour to Copper. I have always used Hammerite though some say don't because it's not really heat resistant, but if your brakes never really get that burning hot it's ok. I've never had a problem in all the years I've been using it.

 

 

 

 

Edited 31 December, 201411 yr by MickA