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blk calipers and blk rotors
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blk calipers and silver rotors
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silver calipers and blk rotors
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What color to paint my rotors calipers?

Old 11-08-02, 03:13 AM
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Default What color to paint my rotors calipers?

I'm gonna paint my rotors and calipers but am torn between silver and black. What do you guys think?
Old 11-08-02, 03:17 AM
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what color is your car? because that will influence the most..
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The reason I'm considering silver for the rotors is because I didn't have them plated and can't take them off cuz i need my car daily. I was thinking lets imitate plating by painting it silver....i know ricy.....but eh....
Old 11-08-02, 03:18 AM
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I got a pearl white one.
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Default Here's what silver would look like........

...and this is with a can of $5 hot engine paint from Pep Boys.

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https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=45272
Old 11-08-02, 04:55 AM
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its all about bling baby

how about black rotor and silver caliper? thats clean
Old 11-08-02, 02:21 PM
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I painted mine black ... it looks great
Old 11-08-02, 04:05 PM
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I painted mine Candy Apple/Metal Flake -Black by Plasti-kote, found it a Discount Auto Parts. It’s not an exact match but close enough to the pillars between the side windows, just a little darker.
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Black...
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Very nice... And clean.

Did you have to take apart the caliper to have it painted?
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Nope, paint them on the car. I wrote a DIY article on it, but it's yet to be posted up in the DIY section...
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They are some very ugly calipers. Nothing worth showing off. Black all the way.
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I painted my calipers black and got the lexus caliper stickers in silver. (came out really nice). But since your car is white I would stick with black. I don't think the pearl white with a silver caliper is gonna look right. Silver would go good with a black lexus.
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It's now a three-way tie. Someone break it.....
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As Charlie Brown would say: "Aarrgg!"

Now its a 4-way tie......

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