Brake Calipers Colour

[valcax]

Help me to take a decision about which colour to choose in my brake calipers.

Red with decal in white: the standard in boxster S

Yellow with decal in black: the new style model in 987

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PD: Excuse me for photoshop :rolleyes:

Edited May 29, 2005 by valcax

[Tool Pants]

How about the Spanish flag? :rolleyes: Looks good with the Union Jack.

[mee]

Personally, I like the red calipers best, but I think painting them any other color than OEM is somewhat poseurish since they're not S brakes and not PCCB brakes. Also, colors other than black are a hassle because you "need" to clean them. No one cares about dirty black calipers, but dirty red or yellow? Just can't be seen. With your wheels, I think you will not have a good time cleaning them. I have 5 spoke wheels and red calipers, and it bugs me that there is always a dirty stripe behind one of the spokes on my calipers after I wash my car. On my other set of wheels which are similar in style to yours (BBS-like), it's next to impossible to clean the calipers unless I remove the wheels. If it were not for Porsche creating a fashion statement with colored calipers, I would stick to black. That's my 2 cents as I prefaced my comments with "personally"...

[LVDell]

My vote would be to keep them as is and clean them up unless you have to paint them. Red should be on 986S and any 996. Yellow ONLY on a car that has PCCB.

Just my $.02

[mytoy986]

I hate to admit this, but I'm going to paint mine RED! The Black for some reason has turned a murky grey!!!