Driven

Am I looking at this as, rather than spending the 38 seconds to unbolt the caliper and caliper bracket, you covered the rotor? if so, that's hilarious!

If not, ignore my above post

sdosmil77

black mite be best color cause bmw Ms come with black and the 135is with M brakes. S brakes r smaller than bmws but the factory color makes very nice wheels/cars look just ok. i mean if u do your wheels touch up that caliper a bit. im lookin into doin a blue shade when i get nice wheels. my SRT-4 came with red from factory

chrisaltima

I say paint them flat black like I did

MugenAp2S2k

Blk FTMFW

MugenAp2S2k

yup i agree i did the oem exhaust flt blk looks hard going to do the calipers next

clarkster009

Nothing wrong with that...I did it too. Why make things more difficult than you should, "38 seconds" or not? That's what I did also and it worked great. I used a silver brake caliper paint. Better but OEM, but subtle.

In response to the OP, yes red calipers are ricey. The reason it looks ok on Porsches and LFAs is because they have HUGE calipers. Little dinky S2000 calipers painted red are rice.

wiley_s2k

Looks like new (OEM). What color is this?

TheMuffinMan

This is going to be a shocker......silver

I did the same from just caliper high-temp spray paint from Advanced Auto parts.

wiley_s2k

Nice and simple, well done.

clarkster009

Thank you! It was amazingly easy...the paint stuck much better than my wheel paint did. I just sprayed some brake caliper cleaner on a paper towel, rubbed and dried the caliper, sanded with some P400 sandpaper (I think), used the brake caliper cleaner again, and then just covered the rotor and sprayed. About 3 coats per caliper, 10 minutes apart.

On a side note, my favorite colors for calipers are white, gunmetal, silver, and black really.

For example: