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    Veteran Member Four Rings
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    Help me pick caliper new color

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    Car is black with Black Optic kit.

    Winter rims are the AG580 in titanium with black center cap

    - Summer rims, I should be going with the same AG580 but this time in bronze.

    Considering my rear caliper are already black, it would be easy to go black. I previously painted my caliper candy red ( a deep red, not a bright red) on my black Skyline with titanium Volk TE-37 ; it was awesome, but now with bronze rims, i'm not sure it would look like as great.

    It seems like most guys with bronze rim go with yellow/orange/bronze caliper. Suggestion / pictures ? WOuld you stay classic and go black with brembo bronze sticker or would you go a bit more wild ?

    Thanks !
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    Black on black car can look good with almost any caliper color. I'd say go for a red or orange.

    YOu can always google image some calipers and just copy the wheel and paste it over a picture of your car. Takes some cropping skills to only crop the tire/brakes of the image you are taking.

    Now help me pick a caliper color! I have a garnet red, with chrome window trim, and I think I will be getting VMR V710 in matte black. I have always wanted orange, but these pictures do not look very good with orange...? What looks best?

    Stock:


    Red:


    Yellow:


    Orange:


    Blue:

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    Veteran Member Four Rings lunamarA4's Avatar
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    Veteran Member Four Rings ed@mtl's Avatar
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    yellow.
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    Veteran Member Three Rings ducati's Avatar
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    IMHO stock calipers that are painted a bright colour looks a bit tacky.

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    Veteran Member Four Rings
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    Quote Originally Posted by ducati View Post
    IMHO stock calipers that are painted a bright colour looks a bit tacky.
    I have the Q5 brembo up front.. still oem, but a bit different than the 1 pot.
    S4 B8.5 no track, just enjoying spirited driving.

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    Veteran Member Four Rings shonseb's Avatar
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    anything looks good black. Yellow would be my first choice, but with a bronze wheels it may look a little off. Burnt orange I think would look much better

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    Veteran Member Four Rings ed@mtl's Avatar
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    Bronze wheels with yellow calipers looks fine with me.


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    Veteran Member Four Rings A4 Centaur's Avatar
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    I am partial to yellow on a black car, but orange like the fellow 'ziner in Seattle has is nice too!

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    Veteran Member Four Rings
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    Man, you went all out with those brakes.. rs brake right ?

    I will go throught some google-image search lol! Trying to make my mind :)
    S4 B8.5 no track, just enjoying spirited driving.

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    Veteran Member Four Rings hyperunion's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by waxxonMTL View Post
    I have the Q5 brembo up front.. still oem, but a bit different than the 1 pot.

    This blue , or a darker blue setup!

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    Yellow on red makes me think of McDonalds French fries. That'd be enough to stop me.
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    Veteran Member Four Rings
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    I'm more thinking about black, gunmetal or dark red.

    Yellow/orange will simply draw too much attention to my liking. Agree, it look nice, but if I were to drive a ferrari, there's no such thing as too much attention, I think loll.. but I like that the car is still ''sleeper 4door family car''.

    So prob, a

    1) black with white brembo logo ( easier since the rear caliper is already painted black)
    2) Gunmetal with red brembo logo ( I think it blends well with both wheel combination .. bronze and titanium/charcoal)
    3) Dark candy red with black brembo logo ( looks very good with black paint and i think it's pretty ''universal'' to see red caliper so it should do fine with bronze and for sure titanium)
    S4 B8.5 no track, just enjoying spirited driving.

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    S4 B8.5 no track, just enjoying spirited driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A4x View Post
    Black on black car can look good with almost any caliper color. I'd say go for a red or orange.

    YOu can always google image some calipers and just copy the wheel and paste it over a picture of your car. Takes some cropping skills to only crop the tire/brakes of the image you are taking.

    Now help me pick a caliper color! I have a garnet red, with chrome window trim, and I think I will be getting VMR V710 in matte black. I have always wanted orange, but these pictures do not look very good with orange...? What looks best?

    Stock:


    Red:


    Yellow:


    Orange:


    Blue:
    RED!!!!!!



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    Mine will be yellow in a few weeks


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    I had mine powder coated meteor gray with red decals.
    Wagons are made to haul things, mine is made to haul ass

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    Veteran Member Four Rings hyperunion's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axis View Post


    I had mine powder coated meteor gray with red decals.
    Like that setup

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    Quote Originally Posted by Axis View Post


    I had mine powder coated meteor gray with red decals.
    I really like this color!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axis View Post


    I had mine powder coated meteor gray with red decals.
    when I saw the writing ''seulement'' on the garbage .. I was like.. he's from QC for sure lol.. I was right lol Nice combo !
    S4 B8.5 no track, just enjoying spirited driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by waxxonMTL View Post
    when I saw the writing ''seulement'' on the garbage .. I was like.. he's from QC for sure lol.. I was right lol Nice combo !
    Picture taken Chez Dex's rent a lift ;)
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