Toyota Celica - Paint Rear Calipers

Rear Calipers & Hubs Painted

04/11/2006

Painting your brake calipers and hubs is a very straight-forward task, and produces excellent looking results.

As I was doing this I also painted the rim of the disk guard.

Be careful as to what paint you use, as the paint must be able to withstand high temperatures. By using any old paint, it will flake off very quickly. The paint I used was Hammerite Smooth (Red) for calipers, Hammerite Smooth (Black) for hubs. I have been told by someone I know who works in a car body shop that Plastikote is also a good make for this.

As access to the caliper is very good when the wheel is off, so I didn't find it necessary to take the calipers off to paint.

Steps:

1. Loosen wheel nuts
2. Jack up wheel
3. Fully unscrew all nuts and take off wheel
4. It's a good idea to remove any corrosion that may be found on both the hub and the disk rim using a stiff wire brush. Finish off with a medium coarse emery paper (I used 400)
5. De-grease and clean all surfaces to be painted thoughoughly. I used meths.
6. Paint all required surfaces with your desired colour. For a good result paint at least 4 coats, leaving at least 20 minutes between each. Don't be put off when the first 1 or 2 coats go on, as it looks very messy. After the 3rd or 4th coat, the results begin to look really good. Take care not to paint any moving parts around the caliper, such as pistons etc.
7. Once totally dry, replace wheel

25/03/2007

I fitted Black Diamond grooved discs and Predator Pads to fronts, and painted the front calipers with Hammerite Smooth Copper (which to me looks more gold than copper) and the disc guard rims silver. So I also done the same to the rears to match. I changed the rear discs in order for it to pass its MOT, and painted the drums black and the disc edge silver, as corrosion was occurring.