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Q7 - Painted Calipers

Old 02-09-2015, 07:40 PM
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Nice job, looks good. Did you have to bleed the brake lines after reinstalling the calipers?
Old 02-22-2015, 11:13 PM
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While not absolutely necessary, I always bleed mine whenever I open the brake system.
Old 02-23-2015, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Dtomasi
Nice job, looks good. Did you have to bleed the brake lines after reinstalling the calipers?

I never removed the calipers..
Old 05-22-2015, 09:57 AM
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Looking for anyone with first hand experience on removing their calipers.
I'm planning on removing my calipers this summer to have them powder coated and would like to know if anyone here has any insights on doing this. Can't find a DIY thread on removing the calipers and bleeding the brake system afterwards.
Any recommendations on a self-bleeding kit, is the whole process pretty straight forward?

I currently have my calipers painted silver with the G2 system but the color of my wheels and the calipers just isn't flowing well with me. I painted them silver when I still had the stock 20" rollers on the Q and it looked ok but I'm not liking it so much now.

TIA!

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Old 07-03-2015, 07:59 AM
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Very nice color combo. If you're going to put some graphics on it, why not go with the S Line badging or at least the red flag.
Old 07-03-2015, 07:57 PM
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no idea... not my caliper. on mine i would leave it blank or do the brembo logo or these:

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Old 02-17-2016, 04:35 PM
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I like those. Looks like special performance brakes. Doesn't "kinder" translate to "children" from German? Either way, I like those child brake calipers
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inspired by:
https://www.google.com/search?q=kind...ih=871&dpr=0.9

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