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Interior/Exterior My MGP CALIPER COVERS

Old May 20, 2011 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Sketch
If there is ever a version of these with "Willwood" (whatever that means) painted on the calipers I would buy them in a heartbeat. I was flipping through a car magazine and it seemed like all the cool cars had that written on the brakes. I would try to find even smaller rotors to put behind them to really complete the look.
how did nobody catch this great comment by sketch??

i thought it was chalked for of quality wit
 
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Old Jun 16, 2011 | 08:18 PM
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Awesome! Now you just need really fat muffler tips to put on the tailpipes.
 
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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by johnnydisco
Not for me in any color. The cover like the OP says is "Cheesy", with "RED" it's even worse. It's just like "PAINTING" the calipers in "RED", it's "RICE" (No disrespect). I mean be honest people, why paint calipers in RED? Because they stand out and looks nice (subjective), otherwise you'll paint them silver if the only purpose is for easier cleaning. Painted calipers is so 90's. Painting calipers on the MINI is no better than painted calipers on a base NEON, specially the hideous "RED".
I saw a Mustang with a set of these caliper covers on last week and had to laugh at how obviously fake they look. Maybe dumb blondes are fooled though.

Red calipers are so 90's? That statement made me laugh too. This is what I saw at a local car showroom/museum this weekend:

 
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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 04:46 AM
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Originally Posted by eagle-co94
I saw a Mustang with a set of these caliper covers on last week and had to laugh at how obviously fake they look. Maybe dumb blondes are fooled though.

Red calipers are so 90's? That statement made me laugh too. This is what I saw at a local car showroom/museum this weekend:

Read again, i said "PAINTED CALIPERS". And the subject of my post is OEM non-BBK.
 
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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by johnnydisco
Read again, i said "PAINTED CALIPERS". And the subject of my post is OEM non-BBK.
I only needed to read it once. Your complaint still doesn't sound valid. Those brakes look painted to me, even down to the colored bolt heads. Sure, they're probably powder coated, but they look the same at least for a few years until the paint starts to fade. And you may have intended for your subject to be OEM brakes, but you didn't say it.

Time to unsubscribe from this thread because I think it has run its course and is now dead.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2011 | 11:18 AM
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i used to have those exact covers on my magnum. very good quality and 1000 times better than paint
 
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Old Jun 26, 2011 | 10:45 PM
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the bright red looks really good and brakes the other colours of the car up nicely. my car has the JCW fron brakes which are slotted and drilled with the red JCW calipers but the back ones are the standard discs with the grey calipers which looks odd.
 
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