Apologies if I'm using the wrong words but does anyone know if its possible to buy red calipers or shoes or whatever they are. Any idea how much they might cost, where you could get them from or how easy to fit.

I'm getting a black st and with the alloys I think the red brake things would look really cool. Is this feasible or practical?

I think you can have your callipers (you were right )taken off and painted whatever colour you want.

Can you not get covers to go over them as I wouldn't want to paint them. I've seen those shiny red plastic ones on porsches but not sure if this is the fabric of the brake or just simply a cover.

Didnt think u could get covers for them, i may be wrong tho. Not sure about the porsche ones, maybe hugh could advise there.

I don't think you can get covers either, you'd normally have to paint the calipers. I'm considering doing this, you can buy paint from Halfords and DIY it without too much difficulty.

Does the paint look crap or is it gloss?

How much roughly does anyone think the actual red calipers would cost then.

Its not gloss as such, but it looks good.

I've got no idea where you'd get red calipers from (Ford?), but most places would probably just paint the original ones anyway.

Cheers bud. I'll do some research.

How much is the paint and is it a reasonably simple thing to do?

I think you can have them powder coated?? they usually give s good effects if i'm thinking of the right thing.

Yeah I've looked on the web and you can getting painting sets with a gloss finish and durable to protect the parts etc but they need about 12 hours to dry. Looks ok but I can't seem to find ones that you could buy already done but I guess with so many different calipers for different cars that this isn't surprising. I guess if a garage could fit them they could prob part exchange with your old calipers when they took them off.

They look quite good though. Thinking that with black car and the red of the logo and interior (of mine) that a flash of red through the alloys might look quite good. Just a case of whether the effort is worth the reward.

Ah, that's true, if you can powder coat wheels them I'm sure you can do the calipers and you'll get a more authentic look. Will probably cost a few quid though but local places that do stuff like wheel refurbishment should be able to quote you.

As for the paint, you can normally get it for about £20 which should be enough to do all four.

Just found this...

http://shop.carnoisseur.com/shop/products/ExtStyling/Paint/3016601000/viewProduct

Yeah I just found a couple of others if anyone interested.

The first one seems a good place to buy in the UK, the second interesting as about the application and the final another place to buy but from abroad I think.

http://body-kit.co.uk/acatalog/brake_caliper_paint.html

http://www.lotuselancentral.com/caliperfun.htm

http://sportcompactcentral.com/article8.html

not bad mate

Getting mine done for me Friday morning. My calipers are going blue to match my car! £35 for all four wheels