FTO AUSTRALIA

Seeing that its such a nice day, and I cbf forking out $$$ for some new rotors... So:

Today I took the time to paint my calipers and disc hub area

The colour I chose is Aluminum/silver Hi temp paint - because my car is silver, and i have bronze/gold rims...

Hrs it took to do all 4 sides:

10:30am to 3:30pm (with break in between) - Therefore 4.5hrs

Amount of times I said *!$%!:

>5

Amount of $$ spent in doing this job?

$15

Looking Bling and feeling satisfied?

Priceless

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My rusty rotor and calipers before i started:






I found that my left rear wheel seemed to have the most amount of rust as compared to the other sides, not sure why. Nontheless, i spent a good amount of time sitting on each side sanding down the damn rust and using rust prevent liquid thingy my dad game me to wipe the rust off. Then I used degreaser to wipe off any impurities on the calipers and rotor hubs.


Masking my car and parts where I dont wanna get paint all ova:




Going insane with the spray can like Im a tag artist :




And finally, after hrs of intense labour , the final product:



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Im gonna take the car out for a drive tonite - letting it dry now. It'll take 24 hr for it to fully dry though.

Gonna go driving tonite which will be involving some "braking" actions , so that I can get some excess paint off the rotor.

That way, I can make sure that my brakes will work like it suppose to

looks really nice,i should really do mine

well done mate. Looks like you did a good job masking the area! that was the hardest bit i reckon when i did mine!

but shite it takes a long time! my back was very sore at the end of the day!

good job!

Thanx guys

Euro:

but shite it takes a long time! my back was very sore at the end of the day!

Ye... im feeling it My back is rather sore.

I sorta knew that it'll take a long time, but damn... didnt realise that it was that strenuous (somwhat anyway) Wellz, thats my workout for the day ehehehe.

lol ken u taped off stuff...I told u not to all the oversprey on the disc will come off after your first drive...just take it easy cos your breaks might "sudder" but soon after it will be normal..

eheheh good stuff Ken, that remind me, i need to redo mine, it start to come off after 3yrs+

can you please post some pics bit more far away from the wheel.
I really would like to see how it looks from normal distance

man those look nice.

nice work!! but can u really see the disc hub area been painted ?

but could i suggest that this disscussion should be in the DIY ....
will be good to read when people have time like holiday project...

Ye u can see the disc hub area, especially when your lookin @ the car/wheel on an angle.

ill get some pics further away when i get the time and post em up here.

- Ken

Old shot , but you get the drift

DIY at it's best!

Depends on what rims you have and the offset, yes you can see the hub. That's why I've gotta paint the hub before autosalon.

shouldnt this be moved to DIY

hey guys
when i had my fto
i painted my calipers red
i foudn that after painting and it dried within 20min or so i took the car out and gave it some logn drive with occasional hard braking
it made the caliper paint look much nicer that looks like tis got a coat of clear coat
hope that helps
btw the product i used was the VHT caliper paint in sydney
if anyone in sydney need help i'm willing to help
if u live in innerwest that is
i still have some red paint left and u can have it if u want for free
i have about 75% of the bottle left

yeah i did my calipers and disk brakes when i had my rims put on...mind u it does wear off and fade so...eventually when i pimp my ride again ill have do repaint them

mell wrote:yeah i did my calipers and disk brakes when i had my rims put on...mind u it does wear off and fade so...eventually when i pimp my ride again ill have do repaint them

what paint did you use? ive had mine on for 18months and hasnt faded at all.....

EURO wrote:

mell wrote:yeah i did my calipers and disk brakes when i had my rims put on...mind u it does wear off and fade so...eventually when i pimp my ride again ill have do repaint them

what paint did you use? ive had mine on for 18months and hasnt faded at all.....

I had mine for almost 4yrs & now it just started to chip a little bit.

well its the front ones which have faded so i dont no wats all that about....mind u there not as easy to clean having the stockies back on....tear......

though the back ones are still pretty good

I've been hearing rumours here in VIC that very shortly painting calipers will be illegal and also something to do with rim and tyre size among other things will be changed for the worse also.

Anyone else heard of this?