Eric F
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- Joined
- March 30, 2017
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- City, State
- So Cal
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2017 Explorer XLT
First off, how could I not like your ride? Congrats on your purchase.
In regards to painting the calipers, as @jonnoriega has already mentioned several of us have done it. Are they perfectly smooth after painting with G2? No. G2 is a self leveling paint, though, so they are much smoother looking after the process than they were previously. It's different strokes for different folks, obviously. A word of warning, though. I also did a lot of research before going with the G2 kit. A ton of it. And if you want the calipers to look 'right' with the covers you're still going to have to paint a portion of the calipers as when you look from certain angles you still see portions of the calipers. That's ultimately what steered me in the painting direction (that and to get the 'custom color' of orange was going to cost me in the neighborhood of $400 .)
Not trying to 'hate' on them (like I said, I nearly pulled the trigger on them myself), just trying to prepare you for that possibility (if you hadn't come across that in your research.)
Welcome to the forum and can't wait to see your upcoming mods.
I appreciate the input, SS. Based on the pics I have seen on this site and others, I just don't like the looks of the painted stock calipers. Maybe most of them haven't been done with G2. In addition to the texture issue, I think the caliper shape doesn't lend itself to looking particularly attractive when highlighted with color. Again, it's a preference thing. It's also possible that I may be posting in the future about how I'm an idiot for wasting $200 on covers If it comes to that, I can always do the G2 treatment later.