Advice on brake calliper colour

[Paul U]

Hi all
About to have Nitrons fitted and while works being done I am having the wheels refurb to shadow chrome and the brake callipers painted ,now i am in two minds about colour , should I go gloss black with polished lettering or red with the polished lettering ?? Black does tend to blend in the background and not stand out , I know at the end of the day it's personal preference but people's ideas please .

Paul.

[Paul U]

And in black.

[Cats]

Black with yellow is standard and my preference

[Jurgen Schmidt]

It does look good in red though. Where's Harry Hill when you need him?

[swisstoni]

Unless you more proud of your callipers than anything else, paint them black.

[Basil Brush]

Red is too Saxo for me. Maybe dark blue against the silver car?

[tvrboy55]

i had mine painted red, against chrome wheels. and they look very nice.

[The Surveyor]

Why not yellow with black 'TVR' text?

Less 'Saxo' than red but still would look good against the silver.

Paul

[drivingfroggy]

Hmmm. Mine are red as standard. So what's that all about? is it an early car thing?

[Paul U]

My baby came back today and looks the Mutts Nutts , well I think so
Set me back 2 new front Calipers after the old ones fell to bits whilst being taken off

[Paul U]

[swisstoni]

Sir made an excellent choice.

[Paul U]

swisstoni said:

Sir made an excellent choice.

Thanks Swisstoni

[Mustang Baz]

Paul - couple of questions from a fellow Tuscan owner;

- just to confirm are those wheels shadow chrome as they look darker than other shadow chrome examples I have seen?

- secondly, did you ever consider yellow brake calipers to go with your light blue Crystal Topaz colour? I have seen this on a few Ferraris in the same body colour and it works, but not convinced on the Tuscan.

Cheers.

[Curdster]

What ever colour you choose just don't use Brake Caliper Specialists. I did, had to chase them several times as they had had them for a month and when they came back, bits were missing and they had not plugged any of the bolt holes so I had to re-tap them all and buy new bolts. Not impressed. If you want to see red on a Crystal Topaz one of my posts has it on somewhere.

Edited by Curdster on Thursday 20th November 21:00