Brake callipers colour on deep green E92

[tomthomastom]

Howdy y’all,

Eventually getting around to sprucing up my slightly scuffed alloys, question is do I change colour on the brake calipers? I’ve the standard 335 calipers, and intend (I think) to keep the same bright silver wheel colour they are silver now. I want an oem look even if it’s not...

BMW blue or green, or stick to silver? I’ve seen some cars with yellows on deep green that actually goes rather well?

As is below.

Tom

Edited by tomthomastom on Saturday 25th April 01:08

[Turn7]

In England, we call them Brake Calipers, are yours broken ?

[gazza285]

In England we don’t really care, although personally I’d stick with the silver.

[craigjm]

So many threads get ruined immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

[AlexRS2782]

I'm going to take a stab at this possibly being a PH'er with a newly created account hoping for a weekend wind up

Crap spelling - always going to get picked up on straight away on PH
Car - another PH favourite (especially if it turns out to be a diesel ) - BMW 3 series.
Picture - use one of the car parked on DYL's - again, no way that's not going unnoticed here and finding a home on the bad parking thread

Edit - oops, may have just posted it onto the parking thread myself

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Saturday 25th April 01:22

[gazza285]

Turn7 said:

In England, we call them Brake Calipers, are yours broken ?

In England, we do not use a space between the last word of the sentence and the end punctuation, and nouns, when used in relation to items, do not need capitalisation.

[VonSenger]

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

PH today. Almost unusable. Every thread quickly turns into a soap box for s.

[A1VDY]

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

Yeah, I've never understood this, it's only a forum but some seem to think they're English teachers... wkers...

[A1VDY]

Ref brake caliper colour, red will go with a black car and silver wheels.

Edit- sorry, I've just looked again and it's green not black. Silver may be a better choice.

[trickywoo]

Bronze goes well with green.

[nomis36]

I think unless you have fancy 4 pot brake callipers keep them understated, in other words, don’t draw attention to ‘normal’ sliding callipers. I have a similar car to you and know the brakes are more than good enough but they don’t look anything special.

[DoubleD]

VonSenger said:

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

PH today. Almost unusable. Every thread quickly turns into a soap box for s.

Yep, just spoils things for everyone else.

[21TonyK]

High gloss black.

[OddCat]

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

I think you should seek some therapy immediately - and then perhaps some compo for the distress caused to you by ruined threads.

[Tim bo]

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined improved immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

[CanAm]

nomis36 said:

I think unless you have fancy 4 pot brake callipers keep them understated, in other words, don’t draw attention to ‘normal’ sliding callipers. I have a similar car to you and know the brakes are more than good enough but they don’t look anything special.

This. I'd suggest splinter camouflage.

[DoubleD]

Tim bo said:

craigjm said:

So many threads get ruined improved immediately by someone picking up on spelling or grammar

When its done for comedy, yes. But otherwise it just makes you look like a bit of a cock.

[anonymous-user]

tomthomastom said:

Howdy y’all,

Eventually getting around to sprucing up my slightly scuffed alloys, question is do I change colour on the brake calipers? I’ve the standard 335 calipers, and intend (I think) to keep the same bright silver wheel colour they are silver now. I want an oem look even if it’s not...

BMW blue or green, or stick to silver? I’ve seen some cars with yellows on deep green that actually goes rather well?

As is below.

Tom

Edited by tomthomastom on Saturday 25th April 01:08

Standard calipers are pretty ugly. Unless you have some nice Brembos or otherwise I'd paint them black so as not to draw attention to them.

[Julian Thompson]

I would paint them silver if they’re just basic oem calipers. But take them off the car to do it because the whole look is ruined when people use a big floppy brush, manage to paint half the pads and all the clips and everything! Looks terrible.

My Z4 is a basic model and has little brakes but they still look tidy against the silver wheels.

[Leptons]

I’d give them a wire brush and leave them.