Spice the Evora up a bit...

Spice the Evora up a bit...

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alex_gray255

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6,316 posts

212 months

Saturday 24th March 2012
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...as well as the interior I've also started to look at ways of sprucing up the outer looks of the Evora and started off by painting the outer break callipers red - which looks a good colour for a dark car.
















justin220

5,446 posts

211 months

Saturday 24th March 2012
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Nice! I fancy doing mine Orange

dalepearson

4 posts

154 months

Wednesday 28th March 2012
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nice finish.
can you share the approach you took.
Did you leave the calipers on? What did you mask off? What paint did you use?

douglasgdmw

492 posts

226 months

Wednesday 28th March 2012
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Be careful with your metal dust caps as sure I remember another Evora owner had his welded on when the car was given a good drive, just in case. Thinkthe heat welded them to tethered.

George

LogicSnap

122 posts

189 months

Thursday 29th March 2012
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dalepearson said:
nice finish.
can you share the approach you took.
Did you leave the calipers on? What did you mask off? What paint did you use?
yep i second that - how did you go about doing it??

alex_gray255

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6,316 posts

212 months

Friday 30th March 2012
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Oops, sorry, ain't visited for a bit... In answer to questions, it was very easy. I paid someone to do it smile

But seriously, the patience and time involved was not something I had time to do, so just got my local lotus garage to do it for me. And on this, they did a very good job.

dalepearson

4 posts

154 months

Wednesday 11th April 2012
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Would you mind sharing how much they charged for this, looks like they did a decent job.
Did they do the entire calliper, or just the front visible parts?

alex_gray255

Original Poster:

6,316 posts

212 months

Sunday 15th April 2012
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dalepearson said:
Would you mind sharing how much they charged for this, looks like they did a decent job.
Did they do the entire calliper, or just the front visible parts?
It cost about 170 for the front set and 170 for the back set, plus 20% vat and 12 pounds for the paint.

The labour was a lot due to the time spent to do the job.

The whole calliper is painted.

Might be cheaper places I'm sure, but they did a good job on it which was the main thing.