Sorry, I knew that. I was just trying to inject a little humor. My point is that in my opinion, efforts to paint rotors seeem unproductive, especially given the abuse these take. I think the point made previously regarding paint flecks and dedbris interfering with the brake operation is a consideration.

If this were a part you worked on a lot, I'd see where you might consider it, but if you are working on these things any more than once evry 60K, then you may want to determine how to reduce this workload instead, upgrades not withstanding.

Hi Rene;

It's easy don't paint them, The salt simply gets behind it and starts to

work off the paint, My best results painting all rotors were as follows

sand blast the entire surface, clean them with brake cleaner then 2 light

coats of High temp primer (red oxide) Then find the highest temp arosol

you can find and coat lightly at least 3 coats,when fully dry have them

turned . I've also done my calipers this way,but I had the rebuild shop

strip and blast them, then I painted and retuned them for finishing.

Rotors looked ok for two winters of TORONTO north Driving then they

looked crappy after that,Calipers held out much longer !

In retrospect I would not do it Again !!It's a lot of "F'n Work !

I replaced the rotors, with 4 Cross Drilled CADNIUM PLATED Units from

KVR out of OTTAWA had them in 3 days and they've held up nicely and

the gold colour does not chip or peel, and if your on a budget or just plain cheap, it still came to my door for less than Volvo O.E. stuff.

Fronts were Brembo and rears were Eurorotor.

So it's easy don't paint them.

Ron

87 765ti+ ipd,grp 6,kvr,can tire,