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Calipers.......

z1a Posts: 2,522 Forumite

9 September 2017 at 6:31PM in Motoring

We haven't had a recent update on the caliper painting saga for a day or two!

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  Jackmydad Posts: 9,186 Forumite

  

  9 September 2017 at 6:45PM

  I don't know. It does pad out the disc-ussion here though. . .

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  docmatt Posts: 915 Forumite

  9 September 2017 at 8:25PM

  I must have missed the calliper thread. I have to admit to painting my calipers blue. But I was 17 at the time. It was a 1991 Blue Renault Clio

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  BeenThroughItAll Posts: 5,018 Forumite

  9 September 2017 at 8:30PM

  docmatt wrote: »

  I must have missed the calliper thread. I have to admit to painting my calipers blue. But I was 17 at the time. It was a 1991 Blue Renault Clio

  
  Thread?
  
  If only. It's been more like five threads.

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  docmatt Posts: 915 Forumite

  9 September 2017 at 8:33PM

  5 threads? Blimey. Sounds like the Shorade repair fraudulent dude.

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  Aylesbury_Duck Posts: 16,277 Forumite

  

  9 September 2017 at 9:04PM

  It went ominously quiet when someone pointed out that not correctly masking the calliper before spray-painting would ruin it...

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  owen_money Posts: 764 Forumite

  10 September 2017 at 3:39PM

  I used to wear calipers as a child, please dont mock

  One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Roland (1876 - 1950)

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  bigadaj Posts: 11,531 Forumite

  

  10 September 2017 at 4:30PM

  owen_money wrote: »

  I used to wear calipers as a child, please dont mock

  
  Did you paint them?

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie

  

  10 September 2017 at 4:41PM

  bigadaj wrote: »

  Did you paint them?

  
  Brace yourself for the reply :eek:

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  Car_54 Posts: 9,054 Forumite

  

  10 September 2017 at 4:52PM

  treboeth wrote: »

  Brace yourself for the reply :eek:

  
  That's limp.

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie

  

  10 September 2017 at 5:07PM edited 19 December 2025 at 8:30PM

  [quote=[Deleted User];73106333]That's limp.[/QUOTE]
  
  I know
  
  I think I need to take a brake

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