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Caesium

Member Since: 21 Sep 2021
Location: Essex
Posts: 454

2012 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 V8 Santorini Black

Brembo Calliper Painting

I need to change my discs and pads because I keep smelling a burning clutch type smell when getting out of the car.

as my callipers were looking pretty manky, I decided to get them painted before changing over the pads and discs.

You can see they look a bit ropey.

as they are six pot alloy brembos i feel they need to have a bit of love and care. i have already flushed through all the fluid.

Click image to enlarge

the pins should look like this, and the nearside came out fine.

unfortunately the offside pins were stuck fast and ended up bending when i was trying to drift out. i had to cut them in half with a dremel in the end and then drift out the remaining bits.

this is what the pins ended up looking like when they were finally extracted.

a wider angled shot

couple of coats on the calliper - the paint is exceptionally thin and runs really easily. i found a dust coat is the best way and then after about 10 coats i hit them with a thicker coat which then leaves a much shinier finish.

this is the finished product (minus the new decals - in the post)

Last edited by Caesium on 11th Oct 2021 5:00pm. Edited 3 times in total

11th Oct 2021 3:16pm

Caesium

Member Since: 21 Sep 2021
Location: Essex
Posts: 454

Not sure what's happened here. The images were showing originally and now they're not.

**EDIT** The original post above worked for a few minutes and then stopped working.

Looks like the forum host software adjusts the URL of the image hosting to include a dimension for resizing the image.

It also seemed to change the picture URL from UPPERCASE to lowercase which then broke the image link. I've changed again, not sure how long the images will stay there for.

Perhaps admin need to look at the image resizer as it's adjusting the explicit URL where case sensitivity is a make-or-break issue.

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11th Oct 2021 3:35pm

bigbo

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2006 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Buckingham Blue

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11th Oct 2021 3:40pm

TDV8 Paul

Member Since: 30 Nov 2020
Location: Tadworth
Posts: 223

2010 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 SC V8 Santorini Black

Looks good! I need to do this, but I can’t decide on a colour yet 2009 (2010 MY) 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography
2007 TDV8 Vogue SE
2005 BMW E63 645ci
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11th Oct 2021 8:33pm

Caesium

Member Since: 21 Sep 2021
Location: Essex
Posts: 454

An update after decal application.

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Christian.

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14th Oct 2021 12:50pm

alanm_3

Member Since: 19 Feb 2011
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2017 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Looks like a good job there Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

14th Oct 2021 2:52pm

Happydaze

Member Since: 30 Aug 2021
Location: Wirral
Posts: 78

Nice job!

Some q's if I may please.

How many cans of paint used for 2 calipers?

How many coast applied? - I suspect 3 but you mentioned 10, but I think that was probably the waiting time!

What preparation was involved?

Thanks in anticipation. I have a set needing to be done, but need to explore wheel nut removals first!

Chris

14th Oct 2021 4:52pm

DrRob

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2011 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 Buckingham Blue

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14th Oct 2021 4:58pm

Caesium

Member Since: 21 Sep 2021
Location: Essex
Posts: 454

Used a wire brush and 320 grit paper to clean them up, plenty of brake cleaner to degrease and clean then loads of masking.

Another spray of brake cleaner and then hit it with the spray.

It’s really thin paint and a heavy coat just runs so I sprayed it with about 10 coats over the whole day with 20-40 mins between coats.

Last coat was as heavy as I dared to bring out the shine as light coats leave a satin/matt finish.

I’ve used a cam and a half to do the two front callipers. Still got the back ones to do. Christian.

Current Cars
2011 Range Rover Vogue SE
2020 BMW M4 Competition
2019 BMW X4

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14th Oct 2021 5:00pm

Caesium

Member Since: 21 Sep 2021
Location: Essex
Posts: 454

Here they are all back together and the view through the wheel (they're next to be refurbed)

Click image to enlarge

Christian.

Current Cars
2011 Range Rover Vogue SE
2020 BMW M4 Competition
2019 BMW X4

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16th Oct 2021 8:21am

marsie

Member Since: 30 Apr 2010
Location: sheffield
Posts: 916

2014 Range Rover Vogue SE SDV8 Loire Blue

Nice job, look loads better. I did mine recently but went for silver with red decals but now I have swapped my wheels I am wishing I had gone for something a bit brighter Paul

2014 Range Rover vogue se 4.4sdv8 Loire Blue
1992 Range Rover Vogue LSE 4.2 Ardennes green

17th Oct 2021 4:47pm

G3BML

Member Since: 22 Jul 2021
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 98

2010 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 Santorini Black

One of the jobs on my to-do-list the big callipers looks great in red

18th Oct 2021 7:19pm

nearlee

Member Since: 28 Feb 2018
Location: Where the sheep are scared
Posts: 250

I hand painted mine, 3 coats on the yellow

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18th Oct 2021 8:05pm

strongstuff

Member Since: 26 Jun 2019
Location: North Wales
Posts: 44

2007 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Stornoway Grey

Handpainted here too, used Halfords engine enamel and a brush.

2008 L322 4.2 V8 SC Stornoway Grey
2006 L322 4.2 V8 SC Java Black

21st Oct 2021 6:55pm

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