Why oh why do companies sell calipers without matching sliders?

Yes, what I want to make my car look really pretty is a set of shiny coloured calipers and then a set of sliders that look like Tony Robinson has dug them out of an iron age settlement on time team of a Sunday aft!!!!

brake caliper paint!

i know what you mean though. both my calipers are painted red, one slider it gold and the other one's grey...

I soaked my carriers in malt vinegar for a week, removing occassionaly to scrub with an old toothbrush until the rust turned to black goo.

Then I washed them off and put them in the gas barbecue for 2 mins to draw all the water out of the porous metal.

They came out looking new, but covered in a fine orange skin of fresh rust. 10 mins on the bech grinder with a wire wheel on it and they were silver and shiney and new.

They've oxidised again by now - if I was to do it again I'd have them powder coated.

Mine went in the electrolysis bath overnight and came out with a jet black cover on them.

Wire brush in the drill had them shining new and a quick coat of red oxide to stop the rusting.

Two coats of smooth hammerite and an hour in the oven =

If you took them to your local metal platers, after de-rusting, you could have them zinc plated and yellow passivated for a small sum and then they would look like new.


Mal

Oh yeah, I get all that, just what I don't get is why the re-furb companies don't do it themselves????