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I've made an appt with my local jag shop guy to get the oil changed, finally change out brakes to ceramic, and I've decided to powdercoat the brake calipers a pretty red and also swap out my center caps to red jagheads. I had previously purchased some R logo stickers to go on the calipers as the original "jaguar" decal is barely visible but I've read that they don't work well with powdercoat surfaces. Is there an extra adhesive or something I can use? Has anyone here applied decals to the powdercoated surfaces with long term success? I'll post some after photos when it gets all done.




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Originally Posted by apost8n8
I've made an appt with my local jag shop guy to get the oil changed, finally change out brakes to ceramic, and I've decided to powdercoat the brake calipers a pretty red and also swap out my center caps to red jagheads. I had previously purchased some R logo stickers to go on the calipers as the original "jaguar" decal is barely visible but I've read that they don't work well with powdercoat surfaces. Is there an extra adhesive or something I can use? Has anyone here applied decals to the powdercoated surfaces with long term success? I'll post some after photos when it gets all done.




EBay center caps



Super F1 Decals



Pretty Bonnet
Check out my pics I've recently got my wheels and calipers powder coated used probably the exact decal so far so good and they have been on for 7 months
 
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Ditto. I'd think worst case don't get the ID plate centers coated and paint them instead.
 
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Check out my pics I've recently got my wheels and calipers powder coated used probably the exact decal so far so good and they have been on for 7 months
red wheels, more pics please
 
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red wheels, more pics please
yes, i'm intrigued as well
 
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Hmmm, I just realized my decals are wrong. The red and green location is swapped on the own decals. I wonder if these are the x100 ones. Crap. Also I hadn't thought about it but these won't look good on the red methinks. Maybe I need to get white ones.
 
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Sorry for the late response
 
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Originally Posted by apost8n8
Hmmm, I just realized my decals are wrong. The red and green location is swapped on the own decals. I wonder if these are the x100 ones. Crap. Also I hadn't thought about it but these won't look good on the red methinks. Maybe I need to get white ones.
My '07 has that style, big green and red behind the 'R' but on mine the colors touch.
 

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