pretty easy to do your self, picture taken while waiting to dry

 

I like black with white Lexus decals. When I see blue calipers, it looks like they are fake F-Sport BBKs, even though the color looks real nice. Just my opinion though.

 

The yellow on ChrIS250's is soooooooo sexy, but I have to agree that it wouldn't look the same on a lighter colored car. I really dig the nice work on the red ones pictured above, and still feel like the red is really going to set off nicely with the TP paint and tinted windows. I went back and forth between red and black, but am afraid that the black really won't stand out. I don't want flashy, but do want people to know that I have painted calipers. Trying to find some middle ground between the two extremes.

 

Purple....do it

 

BTW my vote is black w/ white.

I am wondering what type of shop I could get to take them off completely and either powder coat or spray, apply decal, clear-coat. I would say as long as it is in the $200 range I would rather have that done, but if it is more than that I might think about DIY.

 

I think black will still stand out fine, but it will not be the first thing somebody notices when they see your car either. Grey would probably not stand out at all, except the lettering in the decal. Anybody have pics of black calipers?

 

Black with the logo looks best, I'm thinking it's about time for me to do this mod as well, calipers are turning this yellowish bronze color...

 

where can i get those stickers?

 

noob question, well noob to this DIY, but it looks like people are painting their calipers while still on the car. You dont have to remove your calipers to paint them??

 

eBay usually has them.

 

Chris, are the calipers already smooth like that? I don't have an IS (yet) but I'll be purchasing one in the next few weeks. I did the calipers on my IS300 and they were textured and it made it a little difficult to get a good finish.

 

I ordered mine from BombGrafx.com. They were $12.90 shipped, and that includes the two large ones for the front and three for the rear. They say they give you an extra for the rear, just in case.

 

They are a little rougher than they look in the painted pictures. The paint fills a lot of that in. With that said, the section that you see the decal on, really is a smooth finish already.

 

It's smooth, Decals were put on after red paint dried and then followed with high team clear coat, 3 coats. No need to take of calipers, just make sure you properly mask what you don't want paint on.

 

Well i have also the same problem.I just bought ISF calipers and i have the blue onyx pearl IS250 and i m confused.I m thinking gold with blue decals.what do you think?That s how my car looks now