Alpine white painted calipers

christofis135i · 10-29-2019, 09:03 AM

Got a set of calipers in yesterday that I'll be powder coating. Let me see some alpine white cars with painted calipers! Thinking of going red but not set on it yet.

Rmtt · 11-03-2019, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by christofis135i

Got a set of calipers in yesterday that I'll be powder coating. Let me see some alpine white cars with painted calipers! Thinking of going red but not set on it yet.

I have thought of this in the past...and was leaning towards the blue that you see in the BMW badging.

Just thought it would be different as I have run almost every other color out there on other cars. But never tried blue.

tracer bullet · 11-03-2019, 06:25 AM

I guess it's a sign of my advancing age, but white sounds like a PITA to maintain, and also will look bad if you don't do a perfect job to begin with (any imperfections corroding and getting worse over time). I'm pretty happy w/ the current color, means I don't need to think about cleaning them. I've coated calipers on past cars, I think I might be done with that.

That said, it should look really good. At least for a while. Hopefully a very long while.

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tracer bullet Major General 6189 Rep 6,188 Posts Drives: '25 Z4, '15 X3 35i (135i sold) Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Paul, MN iTrader: (1)	I guess it's a sign of my advancing age, but white sounds like a PITA to maintain, and also will look bad if you don't do a perfect job to begin with (any imperfections corroding and getting worse over time). I'm pretty happy w/ the current color, means I don't need to think about cleaning them. I've coated calipers on past cars, I think I might be done with that. That said, it should look really good. At least for a while. Hopefully a very long while.
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