why not do a crayon rubbing of the raised letters, take it to a sticker shop, they scan it onto their computer and cut you off some perfect fit stickers

 

ah a man who knows where I am coming from at last.....cupradave take note

yes, sounds good, tell me more .
so I do a brass rubbing of my lettering, take it to said sticker shop, they say no problem sir, it sounds a great project, we will do it for free !!

in fact we had some leon cupra driver in the other day asking for the same thing sir, but he was a bit of a muppet, so we sent him away !!

thanks

 

Unfortunately everyone else seems to manage without decals/stickers for their raised lettering, hence there doesn't appear to be a market for them, hence noone seems to make them, hence noone can help you.

If more people were as cack-handed as you at painting a few raised letters then maybe they would be available.

Get a piece of paper, place it over the lettering, use a pencil and make a template of them in a brass rubbing styleee.. Then find someone who will, using posh white stuff that wont melt, cut the letters for you. Then go on dragons den and see if anyone will invest in your subaru 4pot raised letter business

 

fecking hell, lewis has wind up competition

 

funky spider...I see where I may have gone wrong, my cack handed painting may have caused some problems for me, that dont have a solution

however that dosent stop me throwing all my toys out my pram and amidst all the toy throwing, I may have hit upon a lucrative market..


*coming soon to an ebay shop near you *

Decals for subaru (may not limit it to that marquee) calipers for anybody who is cack handed at painting lettering

Its a sure fire winner

 

Why would a cupra driver want U R A B U S on his calipers..

 

Dont knock it sonny jim, I forsee a whole new marketplace opening up for me soon...
If you know me and how much of a numpty mechanic I am, you will know that "Bodge it & Bodge it " is hitting a nerve with the community.

The possibilities are endless:


* lucrative sponsership from dyslexic signwriters
* a whole website dedicated to sunday "have a go " mechanics
* hand tips from other useless owners..dosent help you but you get a nice warm feeling that someone else is having as many problems as yourself

 

god knows....I am using the paint by numbers system

 

Buy some new calipers

HTH

 

there is always one smartarse....


OI PALMER WAKE UP YOU LAZY GIT

 

Get some Brembo's and be done with it !!!!!!!!!

 

so you are using the 4 year old technique

 

Tony, you did ask for advice.. in the 1st post. What you forget is when you jet wash your alloys, the stickers will come off. painting them properly won't.

 

Phil, I wasnt having a pop at you, well maybe in a good natured way
these decals are designed to be jetwash and heat proof, so no worries there

 

Swiss if you did such a good job the first time round, and upon your second attempt you failed miserably

Try try again, practise makes perfect, just paint them till you are happy with them

 

*makes mental note to add sonic to list of people to thump *

 

PMSL

Havent you got a local sticker company you can try to get some made up?

 

yup,going to try those ebay lot and if they are not any good, I will be on my hands and knees doing some good old fashioned brass rubbing me thinks

what amazes me,is that out of all the scooby owners out there, I cant be the first who has come across this problem

 

Probably half the owners leave them as they are, the other half paint them I guess

When I did mine when I first got the scoob, I got a really good heat paint in black, but it was really thin the paint, but went on so well, when it had dried the next day, the calipers actually looked like they were brand new out of the box

When I later did them in red, the paint was different, and much thicker and tbh didn't look brilliant, especially after a few weeks

the Subaru lettering i did first time round was much much better than my second attempt (I guess your not on your own with that one then )

Now if stickers were around for callipers then, I would have got some, and when I got the stickers for the car done, I never thought to ask him to make some up for me for the callipers

Oh, and dont listen to Salsa, they dont jet wash off, certainly not the stickers I had

 

What you want to do is paint them properly, using any of the previously mentioned methods then take a photo of your good work. Now take said photo down your local sticker shop and get them to make up some nice non melty stickers for you from your photo.

 

Given the apparent lack of artistic talent (or patience) available chez Suisse, whats to say the sticker option is going to work?

How are the sticker company going to make a sticker to fit raised lettering ('cos of all the gaps between the letters)?

Will it be one letter at a time - how hard will these be to get straight?

Certainly harder than painting!

I think that the stickers are available for the rear calipers purely because the lettering is not raised - therefore a 'flat' sticker would be effective!

All IMHO and bearing no relation to anything of importance of course

Neil

 

I think I may have been slightly drunk last night and just a tad shouty

All very good suggestions thanks.

Yes, my artisitic ability, whilst normally perfect, let me down this time and I was looking for a quick fix. Stickers wouldnt be that hard to do, because as long as you got the lettering correct, it would just adhere to the raised sections and then cut into to the dips. But I think this excercise has proved that painting is the only way

(if on the other hand I do get some stickers that work, I shall of course be keeping them for myself and not telling any of you lot where to get them )

 

Going to do my calipers this weekend i think, and im going to paint the lettering not using stickers, for god sake its only painting, not rocket science!

Black car, gold wheels, what do you think would look best? Black calipers with gold lettering?

 

I think calipers are over-rated anyhow Just dont drive so fast and you`ll find you can lose most of the speed with a good old size 9 boot out the drivers door scraping your foot across the ground If you want to add an extra little mod to your new braking system then you can add a blakey for sparks Looks well cool at night too


HTH

 

Shut it you mutt !!

 

Paint the caliper Black and then rub the raised bits to a shine and leave.