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Old 09-26-2012, 10:56 AM
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Im buying a pewter ss and need to know what color to paint the calibers. I already have red from my silver ss but don't think it would look good on pewter. Also where do you purchase clear side markers and turn signals from. I looked at a few places with no luck. Thanks in advance.
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i painted mine red... i think they look good... and i got my corners off of ebay..just silicone them before u install them

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i painted mine red... i think they look good... and i got my corners off of ebay..just silicone them before u install them

Your car looks good. What is done to your headlights and do u have clear turns or vht turns
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I got tired of the red. To me, unless you upgrade the brakes, it draws attention to a stock item. Mine are now silver and blend in nicely. Gives it a cleaner look.
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When it comes time to paint mine, I will probably paint the caliper Silver with a black bracket.
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I painted mine silver and the brackets black, sorry I dont know how to load pics. I also purchased my blacked out corners from ebay but I am on my third replacement set and they still kept getting condensation. Yes I siliconed them but it didnt help, because of it the bulbs kept melting and even melted the light itself. I have a few sets of them as they kept replaceing them but I just said screw it and VHT'd them and they look great!
For clear ones hopefully you have better luck then me.
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Originally Posted by CHRIS'S 98 SS
Your car looks good. What is done to your headlights and do u have clear turns or vht turns
did the whistler mod to headlights, and yes ebay clear corners...

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I painted mine silver and the brackets black, sorry I dont know how to load pics. I also purchased my blacked out corners from ebay but I am on my third replacement set and they still kept getting condensation. Yes I siliconed them but it didnt help, because of it the bulbs kept melting and even melted the light itself. I have a few sets of them as they kept replaceing them but I just said screw it and VHT'd them and they look great!
For clear ones hopefully you have better luck then me.
mine melted too... i ended up disabling the parking lights so they only come on when i turn them on, and i also upgraded to leds. less heat...
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I plan on having mine painted pewter with black brackets and then putting black Trans Am decals on the front calipers and clearing over them
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Gunmetal gray would look nice and clean.
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Originally Posted by CHRIS'S 98 SS
Im buying a pewter ss and need to know what color to paint the calibers. I already have red from my silver ss but don't think it would look good on pewter
Black, Pewter, or Polished (a couple of people have polished their calipers). Any gunmetal, silver, etc. will either look like you tried to match it and failed horribly, or will just look like pewter that you haven't washed in a long time.
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I just went with gloss black.
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^^ Gloss black here as well, just looks perfect, should have came from the factory like this.
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mine have been red on my pewter TA since i got it. But about to them Black, bc I am going with a black wheel, and I dont want the calipers taking away from the wheel.
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Mine are Black. The fronts have covers that say Pontiac on them in silver. Looks nice



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