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What Color Should I paint My Calipers?

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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 08:20 PM
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Default What Color Should I paint My Calipers?

Ok my car is yellow, and a store here has the caliper paint kits on sale this week for $7.99 so i figured if i was going to paint my calipers i might as well get the paint now.
So what color should i paint them??
 
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 09:00 PM
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What color are your wheels? I think if you have black or dark wheels I would say yellow.

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My stockers in the first pic and my 17s in the second pic.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 10:19 PM
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Default RE: What Color Should I paint My Calipers?

At the moment my wheels are stocker 16" R/T wheels, but i'll hopefully be buying some black 17's this spring.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 11:16 PM
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Go yellow then!
 
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 11:52 PM
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I think Pink would be great!!!!!!!! Ok, try black it will offset the yellow of the car real nice.
 
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 11:53 PM
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So i have six votes so far but only two suggestions...come on people give me some reasons why i should or should not paint them that color!

Oh and anyone know how long it will take to paint all four, and like how long i should wait before driving it?
 
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 12:47 AM
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I painted mine and within a few hours I was driving. I just followed the directions for the paint I used.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 06:16 AM
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im goin yellow too. but when i get my black drag rims n g-force goodriches's........yellow calipers 4 sure....
 
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 12:08 PM
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Default RE: What Color Should I paint My Calipers?

Honestly, any other colors outside of yellow/black/possibly silver would stand out too much and would look weird. I could understand if maybe you were doing a blue rim or had a bunch of blue striping/body graphics. Or any other color for that matter.

Since you are keeping the car all yellow and going with a black rim, yellow calipers would probably look the best. They would stand out behind the black rim, as well as give it some detail behind the rim.

As for how long would it take, I'd say 4 hours should be about the right amount of time. The part that will actually take the longest is tearing off the wheels and propping up the calipers to paint them. The paint itself should dry relatively fast 15-30 min tops.

 
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 02:53 PM
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Id go with yellow in your case. Like D Man said its only gonna take like 15 min or 30 to get the paint to dry. Taking the wheels off and poppin off the calipers is whats gonna be the pain in the ****.
 
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