Painted rotors? - United Bimmer Community

**mullethunter3** · 11-16-2006, 03:02 PM

Hey guys, I am going home today and wanted to start a new project on my car.

Here's what I want to do: I want to paint the brake rotors the color of my calipers. Not the whole rotor, just the part that is now rusty. The hub part is rusty and so is the outside rim. It looks really shitty. And I hear that nice cars have the rotors painted so they don't rust.

This is what it used to look like.

Here's a couple shots of the rusty hub and outer rim. Keep in mind that I will not be painting the actual braking surface, but it's rusty too (I haven't driven it in 6 days).

The arrows point to the part I want to paint.

Oh, and this is my clock, but my current rotors should be painted like this:

What do you think? Yay or nay?

**RSF5** · 11-16-2006, 03:41 PM

Do it, it would look clean and stylish.

**celsdogg** · 11-16-2006, 04:13 PM

black isnt bad. if it were red or yellow or something, i might have to object!

**RSF5** · 11-16-2006, 04:21 PM

^^^ well yellow and red are reserved for High Performance Brakes like Brembos so your right, that would look like rice. Black is good looking and subtle.

drz · 11-16-2006, 04:26 PM

**mullethunter3** · 11-16-2006, 06:30 PM

Oh, and it will be black paint. Sorry guys, I think you all know I hate rice.

**Dudesky** · 11-16-2006, 06:48 PM

Mine are primer gray.

**RSF5** · 11-16-2006, 07:00 PM

^^^ those black calipers look good, I've had mine painted black too.

nick_318is · 11-16-2006, 08:16 PM

High Temp paint?

**RSF5** · 11-16-2006, 08:36 PM

^^^ yep. not a rice look, but better than the stock rusty gray. My dad got his painted at Butler on his 7

**xsperf** · 11-16-2006, 09:21 PM

you know, if you go on ebay to buy brembos or w/e they actually sell rotors that are already painted there

**scrichy84** · 11-16-2006, 09:31 PM

If you paint them right, they'll look sweet!!

**jybute** · 11-17-2006, 11:09 AM

I bought the Zimmerman cross drilled rotors for my 5, and they looked like they were zinc coated on the hub, but the first rain fall they got all rusty. That was a piss off. I had to take all 4 off and clean them up and paint them, I did mine the same color as my rims though, I have the M parallels, and the way the sit on the disk, it almost looks like one solid piece. Very cool.

**mullethunter3** · 11-18-2006, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xsperf

you know, if you go on ebay to buy brembos or w/e they actually sell rotors that are already painted there

Yeah, but I got these Brembos for cheap. And they work amazing.

I think I'm going to paint them right now. If I can find a brush.