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Old Jan 14, 2008 | 06:43 AM
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My car is silver, I'm gona paint my calipers when I change my rotors and pads later this week when they get here. Any tips/suggestions would be great. How do I get the caliper off? Also what color suggestions do you guys think? I was thinking red or black maybe.
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 07:47 AM
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Here is the DIY: https://www.hondacivicforum.com/m_142692/tm.htm

You don't need to remove the caliper
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 08:10 AM
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i have a silver car and i painted mine black. seeing as they are just stock calipers, i thought no need to paint them red or anything. plus, i think it looks good behind the silvery stock wheels.
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 08:21 AM
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I think black would look best...no reason to draw too much attention to them unless they are upgraded or something...even then I'd still paint em black unless they came red. It's nice and subtle but still noticably cleaner.
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 09:11 AM
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Here is a picture of my just done calipers I did this weekend. I know you don't want them Blue it's an example....




Spray paint sucks....You don't need clear coat with this kit...

They sell it at Auto Zone but I purchase mine at KRAGEN because auto zone didn't have the Blue paint. They come in RED, Black, Silver,Yellow,Blue


 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 09:12 AM
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they're beautiful!


theres no picture [:-]

edit: pwnd there was no picture when i posted
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 09:14 AM
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ORIGINAL: My04Civic

they're beautiful!


theres no picture [:-]
I can see the picture why cant you see it
 
Old Jan 14, 2008 | 10:02 AM
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Black > all other color's
 
Old Feb 13, 2008 | 07:46 PM
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If I knew that I could paint my calipers I wouldn't have bought my powder coated NHT ones!
 
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