I just want to get some opinions on a color for painting my calipers on Vivid Yellow P5. I havent seen to many pics of VY P5s with painted calipers. The only ones that I have seen are red calipers.

Im thinking about doing a orange, since it is along the color spectrum with yellow.

What do you think?

 

dude, go yellow. i really don't know if any other color would match...

oh yeah, i think someone already painted their calipers, altho i can't remember if it was on here or sounddomain (a yellow p5 too)

 

Black....and here is why.....if you paint them ANY bright color....sure they will look good....but the caliper is a rough casting....and has lots of little crevises, LOTS of places for brake dust to get and make look nasty......personally I don't want to be pulling my wheels off all the time to clean my calipers just to keep them lookin nice....so I would paint them black IF I were going to paint them at all.

 

Well, I plan on using the brush kit for painting calipers. This is usally a thick laquer paint, which makes all those crevises get filled and make a smooth finish. I understand what you are saying, and that will happen if I use spray caliper paint.

 

you may STILL find yourself having to remove wheels just to clean them up though...seems like a real pain in the *** to me....

 

I'd stay away from yellow only because if it doesnt match your paint pretty closely it'll look like you tried and failed to match the color...though i did paint my calipers blue to match my car and it came out ok...

 

I have a yellow MP3 and I did yellow it looks great but here is some advice to get the right match go and buy some krylon spray paint they have a yellow that is very very close if not the same color as the car also pick up a clear coat. Check pep boys or auto zone, for these. then do a search to find out how to paint them.
http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/sho...liper+painting here I did it for you