Removing calipers?

[waitey]

How easy is it to remove calipers for painting?

I want to get my front and rear calipers painted but I have never changed anything to do with brakes in my life so was wondering how easy/hard it is to do.

Any detailed guides would be nice or should I just not bother and give my car to a sprayer for a day?

 

[maggi200]

Have you looked in the how to section...

I realise this is a silly question as I know you haven't

Tbh if you're brush painting its easy in situ

 

[waitey]

I was half asleep when posting this..

Guilty as charged!

I was going to spray them but its too much of a faff to remove them so ill just use a brush to paint them on the car, out of interest did you remove the spring when you painted yours?

 

[MovingShadow]

Some sandpaper, some alcohol (the non-drinkeable one) and some Motip calliper spraycan

-Take wheel off
-Put some old newspaper or plastic on the inside of the wheelarch to make sure you don't paint everything.
- Use the sandpaper and grind it down a little bit
- Use the alcohol to degrease it
- First spray them with white calliper paint ( a few coats)
- When dry, spray them (in my case, red) again with calliper paint and also in a few layers.

Reason why first white and then red is that it makes the red more glossy and stand out more.

 

[maggi200]

I was half asleep when posting this..

Guilty as charged!

I was going to spray them but its too much of a faff to remove them so ill just use a brush to paint them on the car, out of interest did you remove the spring when you painted yours?

Tbh I've been too lazy to do the fronts again :lol:

I will probably remove it. But that's mostly because I will be changing pads and discs at some point so thought I would do it all at once.

Once the wheels are back ill probably do it. Deffo before weekend.

If I were doing it in situ, without changing them, I don't think I'd bother. Maybe pull it from sitting flush to get good coverage.