How Clean?? And black on black?

[peter-xll]

Hey all, decided to do a little caliper painting this weekend (great previous threads/pics on the topic btw) and im currently cleaning the calipers; how clean is best?! Jeez they are dirty! And its taking a heck of a lot of elbow grease!

Also; next project...does anyone have advice/pics of black wheels on a black mk4? or would a dark silver/grey be better suited?

Cheers!

[Scouser]

Heres mine





Dave

[balkanac]

do the calipers red and get ROH Modenas with black spokes and polished lip. That's what im planing for my car. The car above looks ok, but those wheels need nice polished dishes

[dubsquad]

Here's mine with 18's.

[Blitzen]

Hey all, decided to do a little caliper painting this weekend (great previous threads/pics on the topic btw) and im currently cleaning the calipers; how clean is best?! Jeez they are dirty! And its taking a heck of a lot of elbow grease!

Also; next project...does anyone have advice/pics of black wheels on a black mk4? or would a dark silver/grey be better suited?

Cheers!

Get a can of Wurth Brake Klean. Get it in the pressure can. Works a treat on ANYTHING!!!
It is awesoms stuff for cleaning brakes(hence the name), but be warned, it dries your skin out, if flammable as all get out(this can be fun and dangerous, or both!!), gets you high as a kite without you realising, and evaporates very quickly. It is also fun to spray on your mats as it is very cold too....

[Scouser]

Sorry but I HATE red calipers, they look so try hard, so ricer. A golf will never be a Porsche or Ferrari why pretend??

My opinion

Dave

[EVN-88G]

Sorry but I HATE red calipers, they look so try hard, so ricer. A golf will never be a Porsche or Ferrari why pretend??

My opinion

Dave

Because a black GTI should have red accents, like the interior, and the seats. Ive done mine red and i think it looks great, much sportier, deffinatly not ricey! nothing about a golf GTI is ricey in my opinion!

get a good hard scrubbing brush, some sugar soap and some degreaser. i gave mine a good soak with the soap and scrubbed, then degreased them and they came up clean enough. if you have some surface rust, i used a product caled "ferro pro" which you can find in paints dept at bunnings, it reverses the rust and then you can paint over it no troubles!


And as far as the wheels are concearned, im goin all black on black, i love the stealth look! Im probably getting Konig Runnaways 18X8 (first pic) but id love BBS CH Black (second pic) but just too expensive

Ev.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Sorry but I HATE red calipers, they look so try hard, so ricer. A golf will never be a Porsche or Ferrari why pretend??

My opinion

Dave

It's just a bit of colour to separate them mate, that's all. I like them provided they're not stamped with Brembo where unnecessary

There was a foreign mk4 owner (UK I think..) who had/has all black with red calipers. Here's a pic, it's a sexy car

[Mrk_Mickey]

Oh and I didn't scrub my calipers back much at all when I painted them. They're meant to be silver stock but mine were a darkish brown and they haven't worn anywhere in a long while...

I used a wire brush and Nulon brake cleaner (generously...lol).

[peter-xll]

Thanks for the advice....i'm managing to get them pretty clean but i dont know when to give up (and i need to do all four before my hand is kaputt!) Jeez the BBS wheels (EVN-88G) look good...What i'm thinking is of doing my current wheels black (if i can work out how to post a pic i will haha; still very new to this forum! Be great to know if anyone has painted this style before...i cant figure out how to describe them, ill try get a pic...

[HOLEIN1]

Hey all, decided to do a little caliper painting this weekend (great previous threads/pics on the topic btw) and im currently cleaning the calipers; how clean is best?! Jeez they are dirty! And its taking a heck of a lot of elbow grease!

Cheers!

as most have mentioned brake cleaner usually eats through most of the crud...

perhaps try cleaining them with some soapy water and a brush to get most of the build up off and then hit it with the brake clean...

ideally you should disassemble the whole caliper assembly and it it with a wire wheel in a drill, but thats a hell of a lot more time consuming, and some decent results can be had with a bit of careful preparation while still onthe car...

post up some pics when youre done!

[blue_reality]

Mate, I've made a DIY How To Video on it which you can find here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mhq_BrnU0

And I did it to my MK4 GTI with RS4 Rims - here's a video of the job and the final product...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnATHMft7o

Let me know how you go or if you have any questions!

[Golf Loon]

All wheels look the same painted black, especially in pics IMO.

Might as well have $100 steelies as $2000+ BBS if you are gonna paint em I reckon.

[fuzion]

Sebs S3 has Blue on Black



Mels GTI is red on black, looks good imo!





reminds me i need to respray mine, its pink! .. dunno hwo that happened....

[peter-xll]

Thanks all for the advice; all done now, gave the car a quick (not as good as usual standard) clean this arvo so this is how it ended up (see attachments)(if i have managed to use this properly!) If anyone has seen this style of wheel painted, how did it look/turn out?

Cheers