What color brake calipers?

[ChrisRS]

As I'm changing my front disks and pads this weekend I thinking of painting my calipers while i`m at it.
But I can`t make up my mind on what color to choose.:S
I`m thinking of yellow or silver. My 172 is on black wheels at te moment so yellow will be cool. But during the summer it`s on silver F1`s....

Anyway here`s a pic of my car. Opinions, photoshop`s or pictures of car`s with the calipers painted, everything will help.

 

[clancy]

blue or yellow i recon

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Black or Silver.

 

[Yellow Dave]

only ever silver on any colour car unless you have 4 pots to show off.

 

[marksman]

silver as above hammerite ftw

 

[jack_kemp]

Yellow ftw.

 

[krisbutler02]

yellow

 

[Tunst]

Silver.

 

[xr2racer]

Silver, or something dark/neutral. Anything colourfull suggests you are a tool that thinks you have huge powerfull brakes to show off

 

[nick.]

Silver or black as you will change to silver F1's in the summer, if you kept the black ones on yellow would work imo

 

[ChrisRS]

I decided to go the silver route for obvious reasons :approve:
Will post some pics tomorrow of the result.

 

[Jay.S]

Why go sliver F1's I think them black alloys look better, red calipers would look amazing.

 

[ChrisRS]

Because these have wintertires on them. And I have a set of silver 16" F1`s for the summer. But i`m also thinking of white 2118`s for the summer:evil:

 

[Jay.S]

Imo if you are going to put white or sliver alloys on I would go for black calipers because it will look better then sliver on sliver or sliver on white.

 

[ChrisRS]

Done!!

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Looks great. How long did they take to dry?

 

[JackJack]

Looks smart.

 

[ChrisRS]

Looks great. How long did they take to dry?

Thanks!

I applied two layers, the second one after 20min. Then had a cup of coffie, cleaned up, and drove a few miles to get home.
After that I didn`t use the car for 24 hours. The guide advised to dry the caliper paint for 24 hours, but when I drove home the paint allready felt dry.