When my HHR SS came, I noticed that the front brake rotors were completely painted (except for the surfaces where the pads run) with a flat light gray paint. The rear rotors are not painted and soon develop a rusty appearance. If the wheels are such that the brakes are fully exposed, as the SS is, it's nice to have them look sharp.

I was recently looking at a new Sky Red Line and I noticed that both the front and rear rotors are painted flat light gray.

Q : Has anyone addressed this problem and found a high temperature paint that matches the front rotors ?

 

Why not just pick a flashier color and do 'em all!

 

Mine went bright red this weekend!

Paint is only $16 and I did it in about 3 hrs with masking and all.

 

irloyal : Great !

What kind of paint did you use ? Did you remove the rotors from the car to work on them ?

 

You should but dont have to thats the best way to get them to look the best...

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They also sale it at Autozone or any local auto parts store

 

Most auto parts stores have a dupli-color kit with spray on brake rotor cleaner and the brush on hi-temp, hi-gloss paint. Paint is in choices of black, red, yellow, blue. Yellow is hard to find, red is popular so it's sold out at some places.

Put the car up on jacks and remove all 4 wheels. Get it up high enough so you don't have to disconect the calipers from the car. You can usually crawl around enough to get all the caliper surface. Use the cleaner liberally, and get a toothbrush to scrub the areas that need it. Mask with tape on exposed pads, rotors, and clips that are real close to the caliper. Paint 2 coats on and your good to go!

This is a good time to inspect the springs, shocks, tie-rods, exhaust, fuel line, etc to make sure that everything is properly aligned and secured.

 

Correct I concur did mine last week....