Hi all,

Just 2 questions.

My caliper decals arrived yesterday in the post so I started painting the calipes of the car last night.
I grinded them down with a wire brush drill bit as many owners do. I got the Halfords caliper paint. Only seeing that you can NOT re-coat after 12 hours I had only time to give them 4 coats, drying between coats.
I have only done the drivers side front and back. Do you think 4 coats is enough? You can only re-coat after 6 weeks so I may have to wait to apply my caliper decals for 6 weeks if another coat or two is recommended?

Also, I do not fully know the workings of brakes, pistons etc etc and only realised this last night.
When painting I masked off the disks, hoses etc but in the middle of the caliper yuo can see the back (or bottom) of the pad. I hope no paint got on this as am I right in saying that the pad moves in and out within the caliper and that paint my stick it to one position?

Thanks as always,

Adrian

 

The pistons that push the pads are *much* stronger than the paint which would crack the first time the brakes are applied. A good way of avoiding this is to remove the pads before painting. I waited until I needed new pads before I painted my calipers and did both jobs at the same time.

I am not too sure about Halfords caliper paint, I think others on here have had problems with it. G2 seems to be a good paint and I used a couple of coats of Savage paint and have not had any flaking problems ...... yet