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Chat Area => Omega Gallery => Topic started by: ClarCE on 30 March 2007, 15:54:18
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I've done all four now, centre caps are being laquered tonight in the garage (I ran out!) along with new badges. New tyres on. When I picked them up from one of our very own members they were in a bit of a state, and one was awful. They were a bargain so had to be done ;) This is the picture of the awful one, now restored :)
Took about 3 solid days of sanding / wet and dry papering / dremeling followed by 1 day spraying, 1 day laquering and a week drying.
Finished result, 4 Elite wheels looking like this:
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u24/ClarCE/30032007178.jpg)
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Very Nice :y that wheel looks immaculate 8-)
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Nice job ;)
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Very impressive :y
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Job well done, should've, while you had the wheels off sprayed the callipers, would set it off better than what it looks now. :y
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Cheers for the comments guys, im very proud of them seeing as its the first time i've ever done anything like this, including spray painting.. time will tell to see how good a job it was.
Mike, I agree - calipers would be good, my old alloys covered them up a bit too well.. when I can be bothered and its a bit warmer I'll probably do them, the wheels had the advantage of me being able to do them in the garage with the heater on full blast!
Just finished laquering the centre caps, when its dry and got the badges on I'll up another piccy...
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Chris... give me some pointers on exactly how you did it..... I want to do the same with my Elite Alloys - they have rust patches
I'm pretty handy with a spray can..
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Chris... give me some pointers on exactly how you did it..... I want to do the same with my Elite Alloys - they have rust patches
I'm pretty handy with a spray can..
Hi James, here you go mate:
1.) Clean the wheel inside and out thouroughly removing as much hardened brake dust as possible
2.) Depending on how bad your wheels are, either use some coarse emery cloth or a dremel with a grinding bit on it (go easy with this, you can cut into the alloy if not careful) and get all the remaining black crap and rust off. Incidentally I didn't go near the front of the wheel with the grinder or emery cloth. I used wet and dry paper and lots of it!
3.) When all surfaces are looking clean, and probably quite matted by now, give it another good wash and dry.
4.) Use a good metal primer - I only gave it one coat of this.
.... a few hours later
5.) Using alloy wheel spray paint (some are more silver than others, the halfords stuff is what I used and is darker, but they also do a lighter one that they'd run out of) give it a light coat.
.... 15 mins
6.) Second coat filling in all the bits you missed on the light coat.
.... 15 mins
7.) Third coat giving it nice coverage, but not going mental to avoid runs.
.... 24 hours later
8.) Apply a light coat of clear laquer
.... 15 mins
9.) A nice good coverage second coat
.... 15 mins
10.) Third coat
(Optional) .... 15 mins then fourth coat. I did four where I'd been too sparse on the the third.
I also did my centre caps, I pulled the black rubbish off each one, sanded down using wet and dry, then sprayed them as above. Finally applying the new raised chrome vauxhall badges to each one that I got off ebay.
You need to leave that for about a week at the minimum to go properly 'hard as nails' before taking them out on the road. I am well impressed with the result, i'll get some pics up with the centre caps on soon :)
Cheers,
Chris.
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Looking good there mate :y do you happen to know if you can get any special filler for filling deeper scratches and gouges
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Very impressive :y
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Looking good there mate :y do you happen to know if you can get any special filler for filling deeper scratches and gouges
Hi Tony, you can get some of this stuff for about £8 - its about half way down, you'll need the activator as well.
Still cheaper than the halfrauds kit that'll cost you £30 for a really tiny amount..
See Here (http://www.smart-repairs.com/acatalog/index.html)
Click Alloy Wheel repair, theres loads of stuff on there, and its pretty good..
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Did you clean the wheels up with the tyres left on?
They look really good :y
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Did you clean the wheels up with the tyres left on?
They look really good :y
I did three with tyres on, and 1 was off - I have since had four new ones put on - I didn't use them till I could afford my new tyres and knew I wasn't going to - this is why the three that came off don't look so black anymore ;) ;D
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Looking good there mate :y do you happen to know if you can get any special filler for filling deeper scratches and gouges
Hi Tony, you can get some of this stuff for about £8 - its about half way down, you'll need the activator as well.
Still cheaper than the halfrauds kit that'll cost you £30 for a really tiny amount..
See Here (http://www.smart-repairs.com/acatalog/index.html)
Click Alloy Wheel repair, theres loads of stuff on there, and its pretty good..
Cheers for that clarCE some interesting products