Do You Want To Add Car Brake Caliper Covers to Your Automobile?

If you are getting ready to perform a brake job on your vehicle, you may want to do more than replace your pads and possibly your rotors. You may consider replacing your caliper covers. These colorful additions seen through your wheel well have become popular in recent years. There are numerous reasons to install them on your vehicle. What are caliper covers, and why install them in your car? Read on for additional information.

What Are Caliper Covers?

Your brake calipers are an essential component of your disc braking system. They are crucial in ensuring your vehicle stops when you apply brakes. Your brake caliper houses your brake pads and pistons. It acts as a clamp and applies pressure using your brake pads, which creates friction on your rotors, slows, and eventually stops your vehicle. 

Caliper covers are aluminum, high-quality plastic, fiberglass, or stainless steel pieces that fit over your calipers. You can find caliper covers in a wide variety of colors and designs. Manufacturers make them for numerous makes and models of vehicles to ensure they fit perfectly and installed easily. 

Caliper covers protect and disguise the caliper units in open spoke wheels. They have become very popular with some vehicle manufacturers and now come equipped on numerous car manufacturers' wheels. They are also available as an aftermarket add-on.

What Are The Advantages Of Caliper Covers?

While some people love caliper covers, others do not. But unlike some upgrades that only enhance the vehicle's looks, caliper covers offer numerous practical advantages to the average car owner.

Caliper Covers Help Keep Your Wheels Cleaner

Nothing is more frustrating than cleaning your vehicle and seeing your wheels covered in brake dust a few days later. Unfortunately, brake dust is often unavoidable due to the construction of brake pads.

Brake dust is a by-product of brake wear. Some vehicles and braking systems generate a lot of it, while others do not. Unfortunately, if left on your wheels for an extended time, some dust is not only unsightly but can become corrosive.

Caliper covers redirect your brake dust toward the back of your wheels and away from your wheels and rims. This redirection means cleaner wheels for more extended periods. 

Caliper Covers Help Keep Your Brakes Cooler

Contrary to popular belief that they can trap brake heat, they do the opposite. Studies show that the covers can reduce caliper heat by 25 to 50 degrees by acting as a heat sink. A heat sink is a component that directs the heat flow away from a hot device which in this case would be the caliper. 

Caliper Covers Help Make Your Vehicle Unique

Your vehicle often reflects you and your personality. While some people are content driving a run-of-the-mill car, others want a special vehicle that reflects more of their personality. Caliper covers allow you to create that unique look.

Caliper covers allow you to add a pop of color to your wheel wells. You can choose your cover color to match or contrast the color of your vehicle, depending on the look you want to create. Other covers provide logos and inscriptions. By mixing and matching colors and inscriptions, your covers will provide a unique look, like expensive wheels on the high-performance brakes of expensive vehicle.

At Padco Auto Parts, we have an excellent inventory of caliper covers and numerous other auto parts you may need for your vehicle. If we do not have what you want in stock, we can quickly order it and get it to you within a day or two. Call us today, and let us help you with the auto parts you need.