Ok i know everyone has their own tastes and stuff but i wanna do a poll on what colours i should do my calipers, ok i have a sprinty blue and have got some red calipers to put on but other half & daughter seem to think it would look cool with red ones, i was gonna strip & do em blue before putting on & old ones coming off are silver so c'mon u lot what colour shall i do em on a sprinty?
this topic only came about when that new megane advert came on tv u know the yellow one and it has red calipers on it and missus said" see that has red ones" reply now

Don't like mixing colours personally, so I would say your choices are :

Silver,Black and Sprinty

Silver if your car is standard
Blue if you've a body kit
black if you've black wheels and a stealth look.

I just don't see the red on blue working well

I'd paint them Sprinty Blue too

Or... paint them gunmetal grey and have your alloys painted grey too like the LE alloys. The smokey grey alloys look great on Sprintys

Tell me a list of colours and I'll make a poll.

Red ones mate thats what colour i want to do mine and i have a sprinty too.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Car Caliper Yes
Car Caliper Yes
Car Caliper Yes
Car Caliper NO

Of course I don't want to seem pushy on the subject

I always thought red calipers on a sprinty blue would look ok.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/jamesperks/bigfoto09.jpg

James

Uh... uh.... uh.....

Yeah, that looks quite nice actually James (my head hangs heavy).

Maybe I can be convinced then.

it depends on your personal pref matey,

imo (and my opinion only lol) i dont like painting most of the car 'details' all in one colour because the eye isnt able to pick up that detail as easy. if it was a mix of sensible colours then it allows people to pick up all of those different aspects quickly.

red is a little bit too... loud for a sprinty imho something more subtle like a darker blue? possibly a grey?

One more...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/jamesperks/blueskirts2.jpg

ive got scotts green coop, going red calipars with black wheels with a pin stripe of red

Is it Highwayman who has the dark orangey calipers on a sprint blue?

whatever he has, they look great

ooooh saw a porto coupe once will gold calipers

I cant think of a better colour than silver for a porto's calipers...

many more colours go well with sprint blue though.

Sprint blue shouldn't have sprint blue calipers. It looks wrong and you can't get VHT paint in srint blue AFAIK.

I'm a fan of the red but do wonder what they'd look like with black calipers and white brembo stickers. I might just have to try it.

Oooh, dont say that to pinin. TBH you dont need vht paint. I did mine with normal paint and petrol resistant lacquer and they're still fine.

Well sorry Pinin but I don't like them. Each to their own mind.

Matt I saw Suba's calipers turn gold after a trackday. These damn things are taking forever to refurb so i'd like to do it just once.... yes i'm lazy.

Well mine are black so I'd be extremely worried if they turned gold.

mine are pug cossack grey to match the wheels, normal paint again with petrol resistant laquer still going two years down the line

Why thank you Matt ! Photos available in the For Sale section .

Phil

And where are pictures of your brakes? [shabba]GIVE[/shabba]

oh yes

They look so great because of the LE wheel caps...

In black:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/bryce_matthew/DSCN0769.jpg

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/bryce_matthew/?action=view¤t=DSCN0772.jpg

And red:

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/bryce_matthew/?action=view¤t=HPIM3651.jpg

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/bryce_matthew/?action=view¤t=HPIM3648.jpg

I do like them in black.

i think silver, with a pale gold laquer would look good on a sprinty bloo coupe, not talking chavtastic gold, but just so it looks an almost champagne colour in the right light, but most of the time appear silver - with black graphics.

think ive been thinking about this far too much.....

Im really thinking about mixing colours now even more than when i 1st posted this thread and im wondering on my sprinty maybe having yellow if not those pics of the red on blue look better than i thought, ive completely gone off blue on blue now lol

I love my Sprinty calipers

Although, I do think they only look good because I have black wheels. Don't think blue would look good behind silver wheels.

I do like those black calipers though Matt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/theresa0666/myfrontbrembos.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/theresa0666/myrearbrakes.jpg

I think yellow would work well with blue or black text. Do a photo shop first though.

Another vote for red on a sprinty

ok i made my choice ..............drum roll...they going to be red