Painting Drums & Calipers

[pjg1979]

Hello Folks & Folk'ets,

is it okay to paint the Drums and Calipers using hammerite or do you have to use a special heat paint or something?

 

[Robb]

You should be fine with hammerite as its durable stuff anyway. I used halfords acrylic based aerosols on mine and its been fine so far. I dont expect it to last forever but hey

 

[squarepants]

hammerite is fine i was told to use hig temp paint but i havent had any problems with hammerite yet!

 

[johnsams]

i used a kit because i wanted the blue for the engine as well and it came with the break parts cleaner stuff and paint brush..pretty thick stuff and drys surprisingly cheap.

only £20 from

http://www.extremeautoaccessories.co.uk/products.php?section=1243



which was alrite

 

[ollie240585]

I just slopped hammerite on mine

 

[sonic]

Hammerite on mine as well.

 

[frank]

ferrous oxide on mine

 

[babyboom]

im the same i used hammerite on mine and it always looked great even though the car was dirty, until i crashed it, but thats another story lol

 

[pjg1979]

Thanks Guys & Gals, Hammerite it is, Now I need a colour. Hmmmm.

 

[Robert]

Don't paint your drums any colour but black.

 

[Primal_Concrete_Micra]

why wouldn't you wanna paint the drums a different colour?

 

[hoodedreeper]

because they stick out like a sore thumb lol

 

[Primal_Concrete_Micra]

ahh fair enough, was considering doing mine the same colour as my car, do they look that bad done? anyone any pics of any that aint done black?

 

[Primal_Concrete_Micra]

ahh fair enough, was considering doing mine the same colour as my car, do they look that bad done? anyone any pics of any that aint done black?

 

[hoodedreeper]

i think it sometimes depends on what alloys you've got.If you've got some thin 5 spoke alloys then the drums are gonna be noticable.

At the end of the day,if you wanna paint them the same colour as your car,feel free to do it,dont let anyone stop you!

 

[Robert]

If you wanna do it, go ahead!

But why make your drum brakes stick out?
I wouldn't even paint my calipers anything but black, unless they were so stupidly huge i wanted to make a point of them being there.

 

[johnsams]

i painted both blue and reckon it looks better, but as long as it goes with the rest.

(the interior is blue and black with blue lights nd stuff, so looks pretty mental i reckon)

 

[pjg1979]

Well I was planning on painting them Silver or a light green, I currently have rusty looking ones which you can see through the alloys.

 

[simmo]

colour code them, they look so much better if you have alloys on. Mine are red to match my car.

 

[Nicknacknu]

Black Hammerite all the way !

 

[Swiper]

silver's good, make em look new, i did my drums green, same as front calipers, but i've had a rear disc axle to fit for about a year.

 

[pjg1979]

I might do mine in silver, but around I think I might put the MSC web address as well as having the stickers on my rear windows. Or is that too much?