I really like the overall styling & design of the Porsche 911. I think Porsche does too since they spent incredible amounts of effort to try to get the form right. So why did they paint the brake calipers such bright colors as red, yellow, & greenish yellow?
When I look at the car, I see the flowing lines & curves of the entire car. Then I find that I can't help but notice those bright colored calipers. They are suppose to be hidden inside the wheels, but instead, are jumping out as if screaming for attention. I think their colors are distractions from the car's real appeal of the body & wheels. There is no style to the caliper. It is just a very odd shaped mass of aluminum that doesn't warrant any attention. On the other hand, the wheels certainly do, which is why we spend so much time & money choosing our wheels. But then those new high dollar wheels are diminished by a very bright caliper painted a color not seen anywhere else on the car. I am seriously considering painting my calipers black to remedy this goofy color scheme.
Anyone have suggestions on how to do this, and what is the proper type paint to use?

 

If I wanted to change the color of my calipers then I would get them powder coated in the color I wanted.....

 

To answer the first question I guess it is personal preference. Same reason some folks like white while others like red cars.

Now to answer your caliper question. They can be painted. You can do them yourself and they make specific paint for them. Or if you are like me and way too **** you can have a pro do them for about $150 a corner.

Since you are from Earth I am not sure where exactly but if you happen to be in SoCal I could give you a really good guy.

 

The different colors signify the type of brake. Base models may get a black caliper on some models, and the red ones are a better version of the same technology.
Yellow uses carbon rotors instead of steel.
Neon green is for hybrids.

Also the bright color adds a splash of sportiness on an otherwise colorless boring white, silver, black, or grey car. It can clash on colorful colors though. It's a reason I ordered a Turbo instead of a Turbo S. I ordered a Guards Red car, and I didn't care for the McD's look of the yellow calipers.

 

It's all marketing.

If you order a Porsche from the factory, you can specify any caliper color that you choose. I have a friend who ordered a C4S with the calipers painted yellow, even though he doesn't have the PCCB option.

 

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To do it right the brakes need to be bled, removed, sandblasted, powdercoated and re-installed. $1500-2000.

 

It is just the factory's way of signifying the difference between technology and performance capability differences of "base" calipers and rotors, "S" calipers (red), carbon fiber rotors (yellow) and hybrids (green).


Car owners are free to paint them any color they want for aesthetic or "profiling" purposes. No big deal except for those who care about that.

 

Not true at all. I will send you a guy that has done brakes for the actual manufacturer to include Lambo, Ferrari and Porsche as well as many racing teams. Go ahead and pay your $2k. I can get a better job done by a guy that has been doing it for 20 years to include just about every famous persons lambo in SoCal and oh yeah let's throw in a few 918's and a La Ferrari.

 

Had I known this I might have gotten the TTS instead of TT.

 

How can they possibly sandblast and get in every crease on all sides without removing them? How could they powder coat or bake finish while on the car?

 

We can do just about any finish/color on brake calipers.. including custom Porsche decals so everything looks like it came from the factory. We have actually had forum members ship us brake calipers to be painted. Feel free to PM us for details.

 

I assume you always remove them to refinish?

 

Until you ask around and get educated that isn't the only way to do the brakes. Carry on. I am quite confident if your way was the best and only way a guy that owns a $3million dollar car would spend your $2k rather than the $600 he did pay. Clearly you don't know. No need to side track the OP. He can check around for himself but you can get it done.

 

Would you order a TTS with red calipers?

 

^Clearly i don't know...............
OP, to me its another opportunity to make your car look different than others. Mine are now red.....like others but entire car is GR and black. To each his own.