How-To Tuesday: Paint Your Own Brake Calipers and Save Big
If you’re like me, a hot-red caliper on an all-black car is like a glorious tractor beam. I’m just magnetically pulled in. Transfixed. Hypnotized by that splash of bright color floating in a colorless sphere, on a brilliantly black car.
But that’s just me. You may prefer something a bit more classic. And by golly, I want you to have whatever darn caliper color you want. You want a purple caliper? I give you my blessing. It’s your Lexus, you should make it yours.
Now, thanks to today’s How-To Tuesday article, you can.
Said article, “How to Paint Your Brake Calipers,” is found in Club Lexus‘s How-Tos section and applies to Lexus IS, ES, GS, and RX models between 2005 and 2013, specifically. But if that’s not you, worry not; plenty of the information is helpful regardless. The article will take you through, step by step, a very easy but very fulfilling DIY mod.
The best part of this project, other than the purple-calipered outcome, is the fact that it’ll save you big bucks. It’s only a roughly $50 cost to you, as opposed to the $500 to $1000 you might have to pay someone else to do it. The worst part? It’s a three-day process.
The article makes a strong case for brush painting over spray painting. So why not go that route? It’s not like you have to be Picasso. Although I’d love to see what he might do with a set of calipers on an all-black LFA.
