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After and before.

Good job mate, looks good.

Deffo look better now you got that shit black paint off! top work fella!

matt86 wrote:Good job mate, looks good.

Cheers dude



Nobby, you would want all the black paint off considering your avatar pic

Smellit wrote:

matt86 wrote:Good job mate, looks good.

Cheers dude



Nobby, you would want all the black paint off considering your avatar pic

Here is mine i sprayed a few days back

kangman wrote:Here is mine i sprayed a few days back

I didnt get that good a finish

it took me an age to polish the fake center nut aswell, and i need to find the original center badges and they are hard to find.

I think they looked better before, showed the style/design of the wheel more, sorry

ImysE30 wrote:I think they looked better before, showed the style/design of the wheel more, sorry

But they were a bugger to clean

I may take the front of the spokes off but not for a while, i have extreame adha and preping/painting wheels is not my thing

Smellit wrote:

ImysE30 wrote:I think they looked better before, showed the style/design of the wheel more, sorry

But they were a bugger to clean

I may take the front of the spokes off but not for a while, i have extreame adha and preping/painting wheels is not my thing

It looks a good job though

I wouldn't have the patience to do it, pay someone else to do it instead

i didnt have the patience , i have three more to do

On another note does anyone know anything about these wheels?
Only info i got is they are msw and were on the rare mazda mx5 le200.

Smellit wrote:i didnt have the patience , i have three more to do

On another note does anyone know anything about these wheels?
Only info i got is they are msw and were on the rare mazda mx5 le200.

HAHA same here, did one can't be fooked to do the rest. so now this is my spare wheel.

I polished the lips and sprayed the centres rover storm grey (metallic and looks amazing)

That one wheel took forever to do and just wasn't worth the small price that dips charges and his work is second to none

Looks like a nice job

but...

black is the dirge of wheels.

They looked better before.

ImysE30 wrote:

Smellit wrote:
I wouldn't have the patience to do it, pay someone else to do it instead

It's when you attempt this sort of thing and even just sand down half a wheel or polish a rim, never mind finishing a whole wheel and end up with an "ok" finish , that paying someone 50 or 60 per wheel for a proper finish, a bargain

polsta wrote:

ImysE30 wrote:

Smellit wrote:
I wouldn't have the patience to do it, pay someone else to do it instead

It's when you attempt this sort of thing and even just sand down half a wheel or polish a rim, never mind finishing a whole wheel and end up with an "ok" finish , that paying someone 50 or 60 per wheel for a proper finish, a bargain

if the car was mint maybe, but its just a little project till i get enough of my finances together to buy me a chromie convertable

This is what they came off as far as i can gather.

how did you strip the paint? standard nitromoors/ stripper, ive got a set of bbs in black with flaking paint need to sort them out and strip it down to silver

bmw9818 wrote:how did you strip the paint? standard nitromoors/ stripper, ive got a set of bbs in black with flaking paint need to sort them out and strip it down to silver

I didnt I just really fine sanded the outside rim and polished the poo out of it and sanded the inside of the wheel even then etch primered and 6 coats of black,

I do have a home made sandblaster i made out of an old paint gun i use for stripping