Silver Car & Silver Wheels. Do I paint the Brake Calipers Red to give it a bit of bling or will it just look naff? Views and suggestions welcome please.

I think the received wisdom is:

1. Painted standard factory calipers can look naff in anything other than black or silver

2. It is entirely up to the conscience of the individual churchgoer - your car after all.

3. Don't paint the rotors completely in yellow though

some cars look ok with coloured calipers and obviously if it comes like it from the factory then its fine.

 

I would personaly say it might look a bit odd if you went for say red, especially if you dont have other red touches on the car

Red would suit it very well indeed...after all the vRs has red calipers no matter what colour the car is

they also had green but no-one is sure why they were green or red lol

Red calipers look great sat on large discs and behind large wheels on a car with sporty intentions (such as the vRS with it's revised bumpers, lowered ride height and rear spoiler).

 

If you take a standard 1.4 TSi as with the OP which I imagine is sitting on standard 16" alloys it will look a little 'Halfords' to me. Only the vRS left the factory with painted calipers which might be part of the reason I would see it as trying a little too hard on the lesser models.

 

If painting the calipers is simply to cover the unsightly surface rust then silver is a good OEM choice.

I'm going to paint mine also, but I'm just going to bodge it with hammerite I think.  

Thanks for the replies guys keep em coming. Hamerite is recommended on many car forums for painting Brake Calipers so I wouldn't call it bodging it. Also thought blue might go well with the silver

Edited 25 August, 201510 yr by maverick54

Thanks for the replies guys keep em coming. Hamerite is recommended on many car forums for painting Brake Calipers so I wouldn't call it bodging it. Also thought blue might go well with the silver

 

Sorry I just meant that I didn't fancy stripping them off and having them sprayed etc.  I'm just going to clean them as best I can on the car, and paint them by hand.