Dull “red” rear calipers
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Saw the title of this old thread while searching - it's my question exactly - why do my painted rear calipers have such a dull finish and rough casting compared to the "slick" and shiny good look of my front calipers? Are they cast of different materials? Since I bought used, did they both look good from the factory and the rears don't hold up well?
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
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Saw the title of this old thread while searching - it's my question exactly - why do my painted rear calipers have such a dull finish and rough casting compared to the "slick" and shiny good look of my front calipers? Are they cast of different materials? Since I bought used, did they both look good from the factory and the rears don't hold up well?
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
Also the front calipers are relatively smooth while the rears are "rough and bumpy" and I have no idea why this is so.
And yes, they both look bright and shiny when new but they both fade over time, especially the red ones. The fronts fade faster than the rears, again I don't know why.
And yes, the "Jaguar" lettering on the front calipers fades fairly fast, I bought my used F-Type when it was 20 months old and the lettering had faded so much you could barely see it any more than a few feet away. Easily fixed though by sticking new decals on, although I could not find any in the correct font that were an exact match for the OEM ones, I ended up buying some that were a little longer and stuck them over the top of the OEM letters.
Last but not least you can get decals for the rear calipers but they will not stick due to the bumpiness, I tried this on both my XFR and F-Type to no avail.
When I repainted the F-Type calipers yellow I filed down the faces of the rear calipers where the decals would go before painting and the decals stuck good and hard no problems.
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Saw the title of this old thread while searching - it's my question exactly - why do my painted rear calipers have such a dull finish and rough casting compared to the "slick" and shiny good look of my front calipers? Are they cast of different materials? Since I bought used, did they both look good from the factory and the rears don't hold up well?
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
Related question - the "JAGUAR" lettering on the front calipers is almost completely faded away. What's up with that? Expected? It's a very minor issue but then again, buyers shell out for the painted calipers for a reason - appearance - and the near-missing lettering looks sloppy. The red paint seems to hold up to the heat - why not the black paint for the letters?
Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all!
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