taffy
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This will be the first thing I do, but I'll be using silver. So after every cleaning they look clean and fresh.
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DIY 2012 Civic Si - How to paint front and rear calipers
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I was thinking of getting caliper covers for simplicity. Do they work well and look good?
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What sort of shop could i ask to do something like this? Should I ask a bodyshop?
Not looking for anything colourful, but mine are a bright orange from rust and i would like to have the rust sanded out & rust converted before coating with some zinc or primer and a matt black unobtrusive paint.
Not looking for anything colourful, but mine are a bright orange from rust and i would like to have the rust sanded out & rust converted before coating with some zinc or primer and a matt black unobtrusive paint.
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It may be too small of a job for a body shop, but you could call and ask if they'd be willing to do it. You may need to find a place that can do sandblasting work if your body shop can't. That'd be the quickest way for them to strip them down to bare metal.
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It definitely looks bad. If you look in google images for rusted calipers you’ll see similar or worse examples.
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Eh, looks pretty typical for car exposed to snow/salt.
Mine were ugly like that. Took them off the car and painted the with black G2 caliper paint. It’s worked well for me and calipers alway look better. It was a slow process though and needed the car on jack stands for a week while I mixed in working and doing the brakes.