scrapin240
Drag Racing Champion
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- Golf
well if you live in CA, especially LA, i'm sure there's a bunch of shops that do powder coating. After you take off your current set for the new powder coated set, then you can still take the painter up on their offer and then resell them with a fresh coat of paint.Any consensus on the best place to send calipers for powder coating? I'm considering ordering another set and going with powder coating instead of paint.
Ideally I would have them shipped directly to the powder coater to save on shipping but I don't know if these shops typically disassemble themselves (or charge for disassembly) before powder. But if wherever I purchase is offering free shipping I'll strip them myself and ship them in a flat-rate box. I would be going for "Porsche" yellow again, and I'm not that concerned with heat causing a color change on me since I don't track... but I want something that will hold up.
The paint on mine looks to be developing some fine cracks. The painter is standing by his work and immediately offered to re-do them. But he wants to do it right, and strip them down completely... which means taking them off the car for a couple weeks. I don't have to drive my car but I'd rather not have it down and since I'm now kind of leery about paint holding up I want to go powder anyway.
If I go powder there will, at some point, be a pair of slightly used (under 2,000 miles) but freshly painted yellow calipers for sale, haha.
I know you don't want the down time, but also, pretty sure the powder coater could easily strip the paint off. Heck you could install the factory calipers while it's in the shop, no down time
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