I'm looking to get some caliper paint for my 3.The car isSilver, with 20% wraparound tint... I'm going back and forth between Black and Red paint - leme know watcha think

 

Make sure you do a real good job cleaning and prepping the calipers, otherwise the paint will peel off. I'd recommend that you do the job wearing medical type gloves to avoid skin oil contamination.

 

both good ideas - and just to show you the product...

http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/g2/caliper_paint.jsp

 

[font=californainfb] VERY good suggestion indeed. Also, the paint drys VERY quickly, but can be cut with med-dry laquer thinner, which helps. Plan on making a day of it, allowing for time (20mins or so) in between to dry and recoat. I wish someone had suggested that to me when I first did mine.
Plan on putting on several additional coats over the next several months. It will chip @ first, but gets stronger w/additional coats and time.

As for your original question: PLEASE don't do red. Red calipers are SO overdone.
W/Sunlight you have a number of choices that, imo would look good. I did the blue w/aluminum silver Mazda decals on my Rally White and am very happy how they turned out.
Yellow would also work. Black? Orange? Red, of course. [:-]
Silver is a basically a neutral color, like white, so your choices are wide and varied.

 

$38.00!!! Mike, Mike, Mike! Go to your local parts store and buy a Dupli-Color kit for half that ($16.95.) You'll get a nice job and have plenty left over for touch-ups. One other suggestion though, buy some additional cheapy desposable paint brushes... another $3-5.00.

 

here are my calipers in red....

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They look orange in that pic???

 

no thats red. if the picture was taken by a digital camera, you might need to check your white balance. if analog, you just snapped the shot at the wrong exposure. try using a gray card next time...youll be surprised with the results...optimum exposure every time.

but, i voted for the calipers to be painted black. the rear brakes are known to create a lot of brake dust...so painting them black would hide the dust very well, and still look sick. and if you ever tint your windows, theyll match nicely.

 

what color would look good with the 07 phantom purple paint jobber?

 

i always recommend red. i think that it just makes an otherwisedull part of thecar stand out a little.