Should I paint my rear brake calipers brembo red to match the fronts? What's the closest match in the hammerite range to it then? Smooth green was an amazing match for vRS green - I feel brembo red may not be as easy to find. I guess a scarlet red of some sort?

Smooth Red gets my vote seeing as Skoda are replacing green with red. Rumours suggest red in the new Fabia vRS too. You could mix green and red (Brown) to indicate a mongrel !!

Xav has red rear calipers to mach his Brembos.

Xav has red rear calipers to mach his Brembos.

Would that be "smooth red" as indicated above, or different type of caliper paint?

Dunno if this would be suitable, but this is what I found googling a bit

larkspeed.com - Foliatec Brake Caliper Lacquer Paint kit in Red

Xav has Foliatec on his.

Good spot mr WW, but for £20 I'd sooner go get a slight mismatch red from the local B&Q. I wonder how many layers of paint there are on my back calipers. They'd been green'd when I got them, then two layers of smooth green, two layers of dark green, now red.... Think I'd better wire brush them down this time.

Urm - well my front calipers have exactly ONE layer of hammerite smooth green on them after I cleaned them.

This was with a brush rather than spray admittedly, but it's kept very well with 40k on them I reckon there might be a few spots on/off it, but it should be in a reasonable shape

It might be worth doing a bit of a targeted search, I am quite convinced you can get the stuff a LOT cheaper as it was just a first find for that product

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When you say Hammerite paint - is this just the bog standard metal Hammerite paint or is there another paint I don't know about - this might save me a few quid on finding proper calliper paint.

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When you say Hammerite paint - is this just the bog standard metal Hammerite paint or is there another paint I don't know about - this might save me a few quid on finding proper calliper paint.

Hammerite , the company , make hammerite paint and also smootherite paint which gives a smooth finish instead of a hammered finish

Smooth stuff is best.

Yep I used hammerite smooth + the hammerite cleaner stuff. Hung up calipers on a few bits of string, taping off the rubber etc.

Then liberally spread the cleaning fluid stuff over the metal work and left that to evaporate. Then painted the rest, left it for a week in my loft, cut out string & job was done

Smooth Red gets my vote seeing as Skoda are replacing green with red. Rumours suggest red in the new Fabia vRS too. You could mix green and red (Brown) to indicate a mongrel !!

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well, if you're thinking about painting track alloys "skoda green", you may as well go the whole hog!

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well, if you're thinking about painting track alloys "skoda green", you may as well go the whole hog!

What??

Youve lost me!! :confused:

Alloys???

We are talking Calipers here!!:confused:

Or is this me not understanding your humour?? :confused:

Read Jase's thread about Brembos, Chris

Chris

Best not :P - next thing you know you're spending money on bigger wheels to fit the Brembos under them

I used Halfords own red caliper paint, cost about £5 and is a good match IMO.

Here's a pic: