Watch This Before You Paint Brake Calipers

Ok so the first set you just painted over the existing rust, and the next set you sand blasted the rust away first. Neither set had any sort of rust treatment. Neither set looks like they were cleaned at all since they went on the car. Of course they won't look great.

After 2 years that’s a long time most of us would have changed cars already. While I use my car I just want it to look decent and that was much better than rusted calipers

Very good video.

Sadly you live in a place where rust lives on every car snow can’t be good on metal parts . I’m sure they would look better on other locations where it doesn’t snow or rain too much.

It's been about 2 years next month, how are they lookin?

I am about to paint mine. I will be sanding, cleaning, and degreasing. Then taping, applying 3 coats primer, 3 coats base coat, and 3 coats clear coat. All topped off with a ceramic coating left over from when I coated the body of my car.

Goes to the trouble of painting brake calipers, and doesn't clean your wheels for 1 or 2 years , WTF really ? Yah know brake dust his highly corrosive so never even trying to wash it off isn't too good regardless if you paint or powdercoat them.

I painted mine with the same paint and mine look the same after 2 years ...Preparation is the key cleaned properly and primed with a few coats no issues

1 thinh tho always do 1 primer to protecht it before hitting the rust again.

it's been 2 years! i'll appreciate an update ;)

where buy the sun blister system to use in your garage?, because applied sunbluster is a danger for the human body...

Although sandblasting and powder coating is for sure better than a rattle can, 2 years for a can of paint is no problem for me. I would repaint every 2 years if I had to, to avoid completely rusty brake calipers

how did you get the rubber seals off along with the piston and boot without killing the piston compression system and bake it??????

Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 but its all your fault for painting them so crappie.
#1) You failed to clean the calipers before painting.
#2) You failed by purchasing the wrong type of paint.
#3) You failed by not priming the caliper. (read #2)
#4) You failed to bring the paint and caliber closer in temperature range.
#5) You failed to apply light, med, heavy coats.
#6) You failed to place a cool decal on the caliper. (smh).
#7) You failed to apply layers of clear coat on to the calipers, which will seal in the decal and protect the paint.
#8) You failed at making this video.
But we all know what you "didn't" fail at 😏...🫢🤭

Bet your wife loves you even more for using the kitchen oven for the caliper ‘bake off’ 😂😂 If that was my oven, I would be wearing those callipers!!

Your worried about the calipers and the rest of the car is rusting and peeling apart 😂😂

I bought some ceramic red paint kit for calipers at auto parts store for less then 50 bucks. Lasted 4 years before I sold the car. Still looked like new

Interesting, thank you for sharing.

if you had done your powder coating at a professional shop and used quality powder the job would still look better than the job you did , use better powder , that cheap stuff you used never lasts

piss poor video. You didn't even clean them properly for the review other than wipe them off. Clean them with a soft brush and soap. I bet they look a lot better.

I used G2 Caliper Kit on my car and it lasted for 6 YEARS, only recently has it started to chip. I never even knew about Por 15 and now I wonder if their caliper paint kit is the same as the G2 or if in fact G2 IS por 15 relabelled... interesting tho..

Great video... I've been doing some research into this subject to decide how to go about restoring calipers. I think the issue that you have is that not only are you dealing with a part that has to live in super harsh conditions in the best of environments, you're also throwing a lot of salt at them over the course of a year. I'm honestly surprised and pleased to see that yours have held up as well as they have.

From reading I've found that blasting these down to bare metal might not be the way to go. Brembo in particular anodizes their calipers inside and out and only recommends cleaning and sanding to scuff up the paint before spraying them and strongly advises against powder coating as that can impact the integrity of the metal.

I guess it all just comes down to how much work you put into the prep, as long as the surface is clean it should accept paint rather well.

well you didn't use primer for one. Did you put clear coat over the paint?

The wire wheel after sand blasting is counter productive, it will polish the surface reducing the porosity reqd for surface coat adhesion. I suggest painting directly on sand blasted surface.

I’ll bake them in the sun 🌞

Sorry I didn’t have the option of taking them off and cleaning and then spray paint them and stick in my wife’s gas oven, she would have a cow 🐄 if she knew I put them in her oven, lol , a happy wife is a happy life , I don’t get much of that as it is, why I don’t want to be in the dog house 🏡

Thank you

Where is the Fumoto Drain Valve?

I'm about to paint mines but I am not expecting it to last years and years because I live in the north of the UK and roads during winter have loads of grit/salt. Unless I clean it every day it won't last years. Same goes with my coil springs and everything under the car lol

Thank you for this video

The problem is not the pain caliper, it is the brake pads. U need to install ceramic rotors and brakepads ceramic and u won't get such a dirty spots.

The lesson here is don't live in Canada.

The powder coating looks great. The choice of red paint shows the baked in brake dust so that goes with the territory. Painting the calipers black or gray would keep a cleaner look I believe. Nice video.

Selling yourself short on the powder coated calipers dude, I thought they looked GREAT for being on a daily driver car. They are going to get dirty and FAR better than having nothing as rust would have taken over. Those rotors also would benefit from some love.

Use G2 caliper paint best stuff out there!!

Would be cool if you linked to the powder coating tools used.

Does it honestly really matter 😂 I reckon people not arsed if they have to paint them every other year it's not the end of the world

What I did so far will surely not last:

1. Cleaned with drill brush and brake cleaner
2. Painted without a primer
3. No clear coat

From my experience, a primer always helps with adhesion. Even if just spray-painted. Often, just a primer is enough if you like gray.

Obviously a high-temp clear coat helps.

Note there is no significant difference between painting plastic body of car and steel.

I have to clean the brake system every month and do some brake fluid bleeding more often.

No matter how you look at it they still look better then rusty calipers.

Funny I was researching caliper paint tips and discovered a video made just for me and my car (91 940 turbo). Thanks for the good info

this is a really good and thorough video

Painting the calipers red increases your acceleration. Painting "Brembo" on them will make your car go even faster!!! j/k, Good video, showing the wear after a year or 2 of actual use!!!

I think the first spray painted calipers were not well prepared for paint, the part with less paint it got on the back shows much more wear but not on the upper part where it recieved probably more paint than other parts. Secondly I think using a clear coat will help alot in paint protection.

Looks like you need to clean your car and brake calipers more often. You can't just let that dust sit on them, plus add heat and the elements, it will rust any metal.

Why don’t you e-coat them before powder coating them. Will help prevent rust and it very cheap

Great video. Well done & big thank you.

I think the additional prep work you did for powder coating (sand blasting all the dirt and rust away, etc.) made all the difference. Better preparation always means a better paint job.

Did you take the pistons out before baking them ?