Painted Calipers and City Lights - United Bimmer Community

**devinwwu** · 09-21-2005, 07:25 PM

so i decided to paint my calipers red today and got some red city lights in my ellipsoids. here are some pics i'm pretty happy with the calipers, i think i might just try to change the city lights over to halos sometime soon though.

**voca** · 09-21-2005, 07:29 PM

you know it's illegal in the US to have any red lights visible from the front? just making sure..

**xsperf** · 09-21-2005, 07:42 PM

red and blue, right?

how did you paint them, when i painted mine, i used something called "caliper paint".. lol

ive seen some ricers use just plain old spray paint, on their drums, lol and it fades off it looks horrible when faded

**Beater_Bimmer** · 09-21-2005, 08:14 PM

how hard is it to paint them? all you have to do is take the wheel off, do you need to take the caliper off too?

**voca** · 09-21-2005, 08:18 PM

to do a good job you should take it all apart and clean the caliper out.

**Spieluhr** · 09-21-2005, 10:13 PM

the calipers look really good man, very smooth and CLEAN. professional quality work right thuurrrr.

As for the city lights, I am not feelin em, never was a fan of city lights. Halo's would definately look much better.

**devinwwu** · 09-22-2005, 12:42 AM

ya i thought the city lights would look better but i don't think i like them. i know its illegal to have red and blue but they are very low light i think 8 watts or somethin. but ya i just used engine spray paint. as long as you get the high heat stuff with the ceramic it works fine.

**gotKRAUT** · 09-22-2005, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Spieluhr

the calipers look really good man, very smooth and CLEAN. professional quality work right thuurrrr.

As for the city lights, I am not feelin em, never was a fan of city lights. Halo's would definately look much better.

im against both...city light and angel eyes < taking a dump
IMO of course...the calipers look good...i like the calipers red only on red cars...black on black cars and black on everything else..anyway...clean...

BTW, looks like you have been workin that ABS lately

or the rotors are warped judging by the dashing on the rotors

**Torque** · 09-22-2005, 12:14 PM

Your city lights would look good, if you ran the wiring from the parking light to them, so that you don't have both ...

**gotKRAUT** · 09-22-2005, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Torque

Your city lights would look good, if you ran the wiring from the parking light to them, so that you don't have both ...

nice i didnt even think of that but it would look way better..

**devinwwu** · 09-22-2005, 05:24 PM

i might try that tonight. sounds intriguing

**Torque** · 09-22-2005, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by devinwwu

i might try that tonight. sounds intriguing

The reason I say run those wires is this:

- you could always just put a piece of tape over the pin on the parking light bulb for a simple 'parking light delete' but u'll get the 'parking light' message on the dash every time u turn the lights on. so ... when u run them over there instead, it still draws current through those wires and the computer doesnt know.

**devinwwu** · 09-22-2005, 10:22 PM

ya maybe i'll take the bulbs out tonight and see if i like the look first
i kinda like my parking light and fogs look, thinking about ditchin the city lights altogether

**94bmw325i** · 09-23-2005, 10:34 AM

Torque didn't you have something like that, but in blue? I want to paint my calipers soon, nice pics Devin.

DEATH2000 · 09-26-2005, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Beater_Bimmer

how hard is it to paint them? all you have to do is take the wheel off, do you need to take the caliper off too?

Duplicolor makes a "kit" u can buy to paint em. All u have to do is take the rim off, but they do recomend removing the brake pads. Removal of the calipers isnt nessecary. And it should only take like 30-40 mins to paint the calipers than like 2-3 hours to dry as i remember.