Graham19922011
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I had to uninstall my caliper covers (soon will be for sale) so I thought I'd paint the calipers, because they just didn't look right bland to me. I bought a duplicolor caliper painting kit from O'reilys. It was 20 bucks and come with "all you need for 4 caliper".
it came with a can of brake cleaner, some caliper paint, 20ft roll of tape, a brush and a stir stick.
I starter by cleaning my EXTREMELY dirty caliper. So dirty it took me about 30 minutes to get one satisfyingly clean..
and after the cleaning
then I taped some things off. I learned really quick that the tape wasn't worth the box it came in.. Considering there was wheel regimens and brake cleaner, I do understand why to an extent. But this stuff wouldn't stick to itself hardly. The kit is a paint brush kit not a spray can paint kit.. So I didn't really do much taping or anything at all besides cover the rotors incase of drops of paint got on my pretty rotors.
I then done my first good coat. I learned pretty fast that it's hard to get the brush strokes out so a second coat was a must for a decent look. The paint dries kinda fast so when you would go over places again to touch up, it would start to bunch up and look ugly. Box says to wait no more than 20 minutes in between coats or you'd be forced to wait 5 days. It came out looking really good and was kinda surprised by that for 20 dollars and a very inpatient 21 year old behind the brush.. You can be really accurate with a steady hand and get pretty well everything visible. Here's the finish product.